Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum-library...
...painstakingly measured out puddles of gasoline in each of the five dining rooms of Allgauer's Fireside restaurant in Lincolnwood, a suburb northwest of Chicago. While a stubby accomplice leveled an automatic at seven late workers and busboys, he methodically laid fuses of gasoline-soaked toilet paper from pool to pool. When, at 3:45 a.m.. things were finally ready, the two hoods herded their captives out the back door unharmed, threw a flaming packet of matches inside, closed the door and drove off into the night while one of Cook County's biggest and best restaurants...
Attitudes. An Alsace man through and through, Pflimlin ardently championed the European Common Market, won an international reputation as the author of the "green pool" plan, which he hoped would do for agriculture what the Schuman Plan (also sponsored by an Alsatian) had done for the European coal and steel industry. Though his party played a prominent part in the overthrow of Premier Mendes-France who tried to ease French policy in North Africa, Pflimlin himself is regarded by the right as much too liberal, is called "the Mendes-France who goes to Mass." He was one of a group...
...museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation of his sculptures, used in a ballet set in Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival...
...SWIMMING-POOL DEALERS expect to install 53,000 pools worth almost $600 million this year v. last year's peak 44,000 pools worth some $500 million. Prices range generally from...