Word: melds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two of Spain's Big Five banks planned a merger that would help gear Spanish banking to the heavy demands ahead. It would meld Spain's biggest commercial bank, the Banco Hispano Americano (capitalization $19.6 million, reserves $47.2 million), with the Banco Central (capitalization $13.3 million, reserves $33.3 million). With these combined resources and 805 branches, the new bank would rank sixth in Europe...
...dream was nine years abuilding. The site, across from King Baudouin's royal palace, was select but far too small. To make room, 17 lots had to be bought, including one occupied by a new office building. Lambert agreed with city planners that the new palazzo should meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized...
...Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963. In manner Meyerson is shy and whimsical. One close friend says of him that "his favorite word is 'meld,' and his characteristic posture is melding the interests of a great variety of people...
...misery, however, is implied in the colorism of COBRA. Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...