Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri-La"- the Ford Foundation's hilltop Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, near Stanford University-but also picked up two merit awards for houses in Stockton and Sausalito, Calif...
...House. Partner Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them...
McKeldin saw some merit in the local brewers' objection to the high Canadian tariffs on U.S. beer, but he refused to ban Carling's in retaliation. "I frown upon restrictive tariffs maintained by this country and others," said Free Trader McKeldin. "However, American leadership toward the elimination of such trade barriers, would not be helped by similar acts of shortsighted contrariness...
Whenever the Pudding has what its producers consider a small hit, it will enthusiastically hit the road on all sorts of grand tours. In 1913, "Panamania" was good enough to merit such a junket and the Pudding sent it off on an ambitious tour covering practically every state west of the Rockies. A newspaper review told of the show's termination in Chicago...
...those worried about the small number of bright pupils going into science or engineering, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation had some encouraging news of the 5,000 semifinalists in the corporation's first annual talent search: 56% of the boys intend to become scientists or engineers. Another hopeful sign: 36% of the girls intend to become teachers. One boy announced that he wanted to become a general...