Word: lucio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...
President Kubitschek wanted Niemeyer to design Brasilia alone. But Niemeyer staged a public competition for the pilot plan, was jubilant when the winning entry-a city plan that from above looks like an airplane-was submitted by his old teacher, Lucio Costa. Said his former pupil: "Costa set high standards and we will keep to them...
...Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night and day on a cost-be-damned basis, hundreds of bulldozers move 65,300 cubic yds. of earth every 24 hours, hurrying to completion the airplane-shaped city designed by Architect Lucio Costa...
Light Fantastic. In Juarez, Mexico, Juana Lucio, 78, testified, when her 103-year-old husband sought a divorce, that he came home late at night drunk, insisted on making merry, dancing the schottische with...
...report to military surgeons meeting in Washington, D.C. . . . last week, Psychiatrists Lucio E. Gatto and Henry L. Dean reported on medical goldbrickers in military service (or "nestlers," as the doctors call them): "Many give such convincing accounts of vague, disabling aches, pains and discomforts,that the unsuspecting physician will find himself hospitalizing them . . . in search of obscure, undetermined, and even rare diseases." Drs. Gatto and Dean suggested establishing centers near Army camps to provide outpatient treatment for potential nestlers, which would "reduce the financial burden of the nation...