Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario Pani, he combined six hyperbolic paraboloids to form a 40-ft. cantilever of shelter. Candela has designed another bandstand that will soar...
...over two of Brazil's states, Minas Gerais and Sáo Paulo, health workers were directing homeowners last week in what looked like a most unsanitary task: coating the walls inside thousands of mud huts with a mixture containing cow dung. As a result, Dr. Mario Pinotti, running the campaign from his modernistic 18th-floor office in Rio, was confident that thousands of lives would be saved...
...Life Insurance Co. home office building near Hartford by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Partner Gordon Bunshaft (TIME COLOR PAGES, Sept. 16); the Stuart Co. pharmaceutical plant at Pasadena by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME COVER, March 31); two glass-façaded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty shop by Los Angeles Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman. In addition, Pereira & Luckman lengthened their list of honors with an Award of Merit for Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif...
...been profitable (1956 net: "more than $1,000,000"), made money even after the government drove out thunderously anti-Fascist Editor Luigi Albertini in 1925 and enlisted the paper in Mussolini's journalistic claque. The present owners of the conservative Corriere are three aging, textile-millionaire Crespi brothers (Mario, 78, Aldo, 73, Vittorio, 62). The Crespis, who took control of the paper when Albertini left, say that their only interest in Corriere is "to maintain its high traditions." Among the traditions: good pay, short hours, and a respectful attitude toward newsmen* that is unique on Italy's mass...
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact...