Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa's Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly began growing like a tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there...
This month, when Britain gives the Gold Coast its independence, and it becomes the Commonwealth nation of Ghana, workmen hope to begin turning Weese's design into reality. What he has created is original without being bizarre, dignified without being conventional, functional without being depressing, and it should fit into the landscape as if it were homegrown...
...Solid Gold Skyscraper. Reynolds Metal Co. is supplying gold-colored aluminum to brighten the facade of a 34-story office building now rising in Manhattan. Reynolds produced the color by an electrolytic process which covers aluminum with a gold-impregnated hard aluminum-oxide skin...
...magnitude astronomer and longtime (1911-47) professor at Princeton University, who developed theories to account for giant-and dwarf-star groups, cheered Sunday supplement writers by theorizing that there could be millions of planets with some kind of life on them, collected a field marshal's array of gold medals from U.S. and foreign astronomical societies; in Princeton...
Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...