Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fran P. Hosken, an "architectural writer," observed that neither building expresses the spirit of the subject studied there. She complained that Larsen Hall "lacks all reference to people in its blank walls -- such references as windows, floor divisions, or some means for the eye to orient itself to 'read' the building." "Why should a building concerned with . . . teaching shut out the world and turn inside itself?" Miss Hosken asked...
...rumors being spread by the Arab socialist press could be believed, what they would be talking about was a conservative anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" among Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. This was vast exaggeration, but there was no blinking the fact that the Three Kings of Orient had been drawing closer together, settling their differences and emerging as a force that could prove to be an important balance against the socialist countries of the Middle East...
...million business, has 413 clients who pay for the right to use its process. It is about to open a Canadian branch, will soon license a Far East operation to be called Koratron Technique Hong Kong, which will take advantage of the huge clothing market in the Orient...
...against an imaginary bow, he showed us how he reels in "marlin bigger than I am." The other Beach Boys have other preoccupations. "Carl spends money, Brian writes songs, and I just like speed and competition," Dennis says. "I don't like Europe and I don't like the Orient. I like Redondo Beach and Hawthorne and Inglewood, the places I grew up in. That...
...Thorwald considers his sub ject in four tidy divisions. ∙ CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION, the funda mental problem of detection, began to be a science in 1879, when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven years...