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...sand beneath a pier at Daytona Beach, Fla., a group of collegians gathered, glanced surreptitiously about, and one by one held out their arms. At that moment a passing dowager spied the scene, stared for a moment in horrified silence, and rushed away to report what was certainly a wicked rite. "I knew it!" she gasped. "They're taking the needle...
...building has ever been "recognized as excellent from the aesthetic point of view if it is not also excellent from a technical point of view," Pier Luigi Nervi told a packed Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...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...