Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost lost to sight in the worldwide building boom of new factories, apartment houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full...
...sculpture, Death has come off far better than Taxes. But now in the big new Municipal Administration Building in Düsseldorf, West Germany, taxpayers have at last found a spokesman in 35-year-old Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand...
Twelve years ago Max Grundig was just another drummed-out German quartermaster private, with a headful of ideas and a handful of tools. But he had neither money nor shop with which to put them to work. Today Grundig is Germany's No. 1 radio-set maker, claims to be Europe's biggest. At 48 he is owner and ram-rodding boss of a 13,000-worker, six-plant electronics business that last year grossed some $50 million on sales of 900,000 radios, TV sets, phonographs and recorders. Almost half were exported, including big shipments...
...Died. Max Ausnit, 69, onetime Rumanian steel and munitions magnate who fled to the U.S. in 1946, later (1948) was charged by the Communist-led Rumanian government with plotting revolution with American and British agents (1948), sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia (his second such trial; at the first, in 1944, the Nazi puppet government gave him a death sentence after he escaped to Egypt in a stolen bomber); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
London TIME Bureau Chief Max Ways last week cabled this authoritative report of Harold Macmillan's views as he took office...