Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight the city was rocked by a thunderous dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
Outside the glass tower of the United Nations on Manhattan's East River, a group of pickets paraded every night last week with outsized flashlights. Periodically they flashed the beams, filtered through translucent green paper, against the walls of the U.N. Assembly building. In Europe, green is a symbol for hope. Inside the U.N., the Eleventh General Assembly had met in special session to talk about Hungary...
Last week Nova Scotia-born President Alison Cumming, 50, announced that the company will build a $4,500,000 glass and stainless-steel headquarters building in Toronto. Soon he plans to issue separate financial statements and common stock for sale to Canadian investors. Said President Cumming: "We want the public face of this company to be Canadian, and not something that's just for show...
...compromise. I'd have loved a fireplace! Well, I have a magnificent office in plain taste." A $100,000 mock-up section was thrown up by Turner Construction Co., and everything, from Linotile to venetian-blind drawstrings, wa tried on it. To reduce heat, a new green-tinted glass was used. To break up space, new movable paneling was developed. To keep maintenance cost low, dark grey Quincy granite (12,000 sq. ft.) was used around the base, Vermont white marble (6,000 sq. ft.) to sheathe exterior columns. Aluminum skin was specially anodized for weather resistance...
...Connecticut General plant, with its module of six feet carried throughout, its sweeping 470-ft. glass façade, cantilevered restaurant, airy, uncolumned work space, four tranquil yet exciting interior courts by Japanese Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and separate executive block, is Bunshaft's bold merger of his principles with the company's needs...