Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grace & Delight. So pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
While Stone has only begun to put pencil to paper, he intends that the project will combine the grace and delights of Mogul architecture with all the benefits of modern technology. Says Stone: "It is the dream of every architect to do a project of this scope. It hasn't happened more than half a dozen times in history...
...adds injury to insult by letting his donkey eat the neighbor's grass. In the belly-busting climax of this humoric epic, the Germans ignominiously wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, and the villagers preserve their vino for the postwar American market. Crichton tells his story with grace, pace, warmth and a wonderful free-reeling wit that skips among the vineyards like an inebriated billygoat. The book should make a dandy movie...
...action in the mines. Copper output has doubled since 1959, and Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Cerro Corp. are considering plans that could double it again by 1970. This would rank Peru with Chile and Zambia as world leaders in copper production. Even cautious old W. R. Grace & Co., which has been packing its bags in most Latin American countries, has announced a $50 million investment in papermaking and other projects over the next five years...
...become a cold-war ally. The Suharto regime is basically nationalistic, and intends to maintain strict neutrality between West and East. "It is hoped that America will not try to orbit us as an American satellite," Suharto said last week. That bit of Indonesian humor could be accepted with grace by the U.S., which, of course, has no need to try any such orbiting. Indonesia's dramatic new stance needs no additional push to make it more than what it is: the West's best news for years in Asia...