Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pier Luigi Nervi is a great builder because Italy is scarce in trees and World War II demolished northern Italy. A stupid thing to say, I know, for even before the War Nervi had demonstrated undeniable genius as an engineer. Yet Nervi's is the genius of solving problems. Destruction and financial ruin in Italy necessitated speed and economy, driving Nervi to the discovery of "ferro-cement," a new reinforced concrete--cheaper, more elastic, and, of the essence, more rapidly constructed than older versions...
Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi will give the first of three Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "The Relationship Between Aesthetical and Technical Aspects of Building" Thursday night at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Friday, three babies died. Hospital officials began to worry about a virulent infection, but found no evidence of any. On Saturday, three more babies died. Still no one thought of checking the formula, partly because some babies were taking theirs well. Finally, Practical Nurse May Pier, pausing in her Sunday morning duties, mixed herself a cup of instant coffee, and to sweeten it she dipped into the formula room's canister for sugar. The coffee tasted like sea water. Curious, she tasted what was in the canister. It was not sugar but salt, and it had been going into...
...raging Atlantic waters went summer houses at Westhampton Beach, some valued at $50,000, and more modest shacks on Fire Island's dunes. Water swirled over car tops at Coney Island. Nearly one-third of the total damage occurred in New Jersey. Atlantic City's exposed Steel Pier was partially swept away, stranding the former "Miss America" ballroom. Hundreds of homes were ruined on Long Beach Island, which was sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some...
Married or Not? Since most cases are reported in the press, thousands of lives and careers have been wrecked. In Port Elizabeth last month, a white man drove his car off the pier and drowned after he learned that police would bring Immorality Act charges against him; in Klerksdorp, a father of four children asphyxiated himself rather than go to court for his affair with a black woman...