Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year begins, moviemaking time has come again to Sperry Rand Corp. Up before the cameras steps Chairman Jean Paul Lyet, 61 . He is an accountant who rose out of a brass-knuckle neighborhood of North Philadelphia to become chief of a $4-billion-a-year multinational that sells products from rather simple gyrocompasses to complex Univac computers. And now, the boss is filming his annual report to 89,000 employees round the world...
...exquisitely modulated voids and surfaces of post-Corbusian designers like Richard Meier, 44, and Charles Gwathmey, 40. In between fall still more manners and interests: the glass caverns of Cesar Pelli, 42; the complicated linguistic play with Pop and history practiced by Robert Venturi, 53, and his firm in Philadelphia; the no less complex, but somewhat less ironic and more playful historicism of Charles Moore, 53, and Robert Stern, 39; the slangy, "high-tech" flexibility of Hugh Hardy, 46, and his firm, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer; the outright jokiness of Stanley Tigerman...
...building. It was a book, published in 1966 by an obscure architect and theorist from Philadelphia named Robert Venturi. Its title was Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture...
Despite assertions by both Troy and subcommittee member George Haines, highly acclaimed coach from Foxcatcher A.C. in Philadelphia, that the vast majority of athletes and coaches applauding the rulings, there seemed to be some muffled dissatisfaction with the trivial nature of the offense in the one case and the harshness of the penalty in the other. "I don't see how they have the right to do that to Marc," said Gina Layton, who was unwilling to comment on her own case, but "had no idea why the penalties were so harsh for those two (Tallman and Foreman)." Layton...
...lack of a quorum prevented the Student Assembly last night from acting upon a request for $200 from a group of students who wish to see Harvard represented at a conference of Ivy League schools, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago to be held February in Philadelphia...