Word: piers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIED. Pier Luigi Nervi, 87, Italian builder and architect famed for his graceful, dramatic structures of reinforced concrete; of a heart attack; in Rome. Originally trained in civil engineering, Nervi first began experimenting with concrete design when he constructed an all-concrete theater in Naples in 1927. He went on to create a strong, light blend of mortar and steel mesh called ferrocemento and, by casting major structural pieces at construction sites, managed to mold concrete into soaring, tilted buttresses and high, swooping ceilings. His finest buildings, critics agree, are the vast Exhibition Hall in Turin, Rome's sunburst...
...SCAVENGERS were nowhere to be found last Tuesday at Edward J. King's primary night headquarters outside Anthony's Pier Four. Not that there wasn't a goodly share of staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around...
When I made it back to the press room, one of the press secretaries asked me if I wanted to pay the $50 social activities fee and go to Anthony's Pier 4 to hear Joan Mondale speak...
...rich are the stock market players: Resorts International's stock soared from $20 a share in March to a recent high of $96½. The company has invested some of its new capital by purchasing the Seeburg line of slot machines and Atlantic City's famed Steel Pier. The shares of two other firms that plan to open casinos in Atlantic City are also rising fast: Bally Manufacturing Co., which makes slot and pinball machines, from a low earlier this year of $15 to $38 last week, and Caesars World, from a low of $6 earlier this year...
Mass. Horticultural Society Spring Garden and Flower Show--Commonwealth Pier Exhibition Hall, 170 Northern Ave., Boston, 10 a.m. - 10p.m...