Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody fooled himself that Hayden could act. Week after week he sat idly around the lot drawing $600 a month from Paramount Pictures and lifting weights in the studio gymnasium. Finaly he was given the second male lead, Behind Fred MacMurray and opposite Madeleine Carroll (whom he later married) in Virginia, and the big publicity boom...
Between Saloon & Gym. At a time when many college architects around the U.S. were building contemporary campus structures as neat, clean and impersonal as factories, Saarinen decided to come to modern terms with the gargoyle. Given a site over which loomed the 197-ft.-high Gothic gymnasium, he designed his buildings to be "good neighbors." To capture the masonry spirit of nearby older pseudo-Gothic buildings, Saarinen pumped wet concrete into frames that were filled with stones, simulating inexpensively their handcrafted finish...
...oldest (dating from 1727) it sports an impressively new campus. Constructed between 1945 and 1955, each new building boasts more gimmicks than the last. The campus of the 11 Faculties includes a 1250 bed hospital, a 3000 seat auditorium complete with concrete mobiles, two stadiums, a saucer shaped gymnasium, a botanical garden, and acres of multi-colored murals...
...sides and opens to the sea. Near by is a similar two-story villa for servants and security men. The third building is a recreation house that erupts in a variety of verandas, terraces and wall-to-wall windows. Attached to the back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental rugs, where Rusk and Khrushchev played a brisk game of badminton. Medicine balls of assorted sizes lie around along with other muscle-building equipment, such as parallel bars, weight pulleys, climbing bars and a gymnastic horse. A corridor leads to Nikita's pride and joy: a 25-yd. swimming...
...Untouchables. In its 21-story Houston headquarters, the Prudential Insurance Co. of America has reduced losses to almost nil by providing a locker with a key for every employee. But that smacks a bit of the gymnasium. Manhattan's Bankers Trust Building has four closed-circuit TV cameras scanning entrances and exits, and the new Pan Am building will soon have 15. Security measures elsewhere include everything from platoons of uniformed guards and plainclothes detectives to hidden still cameras, electric-eye alarm systems, fluorescent dusting powder (guilty fingers glow under fluorescent lamps after dipping into petty cash), identification passes...