Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paris could scarcely have been more than a tribal village when Phoenician sailors established Massilia on the southern coast of France during the 6th century B.C. So strong were the Massilians and the fortifications they built that not until Caesar laid extended siege to Massilia in 49 B.C. did the city's streets clink to the armor of invaders. Subsequently Romanized, then later buried for centuries beneath the foundations of what became the port of Marseille, the fortifications were unearthed this summer when contractors began excavations for three high-rise commercial buildings, a cultural center...
...most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were in a different groove-Andy Williams. Says Mulligan: "She's a kid who had a fear of music laid on her as a child. She's just now learning to relax...
...over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships that were launched during the war. Kaiser's principal rule was speed ("There's no money in a slow job"), and one freighter was actually finished four days and 15 hours after the keel was laid...
...West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited by state officials who suspected him of not following specifications...
Grand Coulee. In Cuba, on the contract that Kaiser always maintained had established his future, his company laid 200 miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly...