Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York pier boss indicted for misusing union funds...
When Lynn Stevenson '53 saw her blouse, which had been lying on the pier, blow into the lake, she called to Chapralis, asking him to retrieve it for her. --Dally Northwestern...
...poor relationship, UNESCO, has been trying without much success to build itself a permanent home in Paris. Still cramped into two converted hotels, UNESCO has twice drawn up plans, only to have them fail. The most recent attempt, by France's Bernard Zehr-fuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, was for a tall, slab-sided structure to be built near the Bois de Boulogne (TIME, Oct. 13). Paris' scornful verdict: "Notre Dame of the Radiators." Last week UNESCO proposed another solution to the problem of a modern building in an ancient...
After the press conference in the ship's salon, she descended the steep gangplank, and on the pier waved a white-gloved hand to acknowledge cheers and shouts of welcome ("Benvenuta, Mrs. Luce!"). Then she and her husband Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, got into a U.S. embassy Chrysler for the 150-mile trip to Rome. As the car wheeled into Naples' streets, a clatter of applause and cheers rose from a crowd of more than 1,000 Neapolitans who had lined the square outside the port area in hopes of catching a glimpse...
...Francisco, the pier was jam-packed with welcomers, including a Japanese-American Boy Scout band, two lines of Japanese-American girls dressed in kimonos and carrying paper flags, a Hawaiian merchant trying to push his way up the gangplank with four imperial Stetsons for the Crown Prince and his party, and California's Governor Earl Warren. Akihito waved to them all from the bridge. He shook hands with the governor, read another statement in Japanese ("I shall never forget the magnificent sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, the tranquillity of San Francisco Bay, and the beauty of the city...