Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sonic pile-hammer" is now driving the piles for its first building foundation--that of the new building for the Geology Department between the University Museum and Malinckrodt. Since the hammer causes only a fraction of the ground and air vibrations caused by conventional steam hammers, it insures the security of the famous glass flowers housed in the Museum (and also of the curators who reputedly are even more sensitive than the glass flowers...
About five days ago one pile was driven with a steam hammer and seven piles with the sonic hammer. Then the steam-driven pile and one of the sonic-driven ones were load-tested. Specifications called for a minimum load of seventy tons, but as a safety factor both were tested for double the design load. It was found that with the 140 ton load the steam-driven pile sunk twice as far into the ground as the sonic-driven pile...
...Detroit Pistons in the Western Division, even the pros seemed a little tired of it all. Contact on the court came often and carelessly; the fouls were no longer subtle. In one game, the Celtics' defensive specialist Bill Russell seemed determined to stomp the opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia...
...camerange. Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys Are, then made a clattering success of The Honeymoon Machine. Now they have imparted their talent for the trivial to a dogface farce that may not fracture any funny bones, but manages at least to pile up a bumper crop of nuts on the usual Pacific island...
...proposal by Sen. Francis X. McCann of Cambridge calls for the construction of similar overpasses at River Ave, and Western Ave, in order to avoid the "grinding halts" that pile up traffic on Memorial Drive during the rush hours...