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Word: pools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta, faced with the cost of separately housing a symphony hall, theater, museum, ballet studio and art school, culture-loving Georgians decided to pool their efforts and put them all under one roof in the new, $13 million Memorial Arts Center, the work of two local architectural firms. Dedicated to the memory of 122 Atlanta arts patrons who were killed in a Paris plane crash in 1962, the center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Stirring Men to Leap Moats | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...problems: primarily, how to add a wing to the existing building, in this case the Des Moines Art Center built by Eliel Saarinen in 1948. Pei's solution was to build a two-story structure behind the original, U-shaped building, thus totally surrounding a shallow reflecting pool that had lain between the two wings of the U. To further unify the two, he used rough-textured concrete to match the limestone facade of the Saarinen building. The result is so harmonious that Washington's National Gallery of Art has commissioned Pei to design a major wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Stirring Men to Leap Moats | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Starting this Sunday the Indoor Athletic Building pool will open Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. for the winter season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOL | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Harvard and seven other New England universities have established a new University Film Study Center to pool resources in supporting the study of films at college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Join New Cooperative For Film Study | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...risk-pool," financed by businesses in the greater Boston area, is used to grant loans to these "marginal people," thereby helping Unity to overcome this problem...

Author: By Mona Sarfaty, | Title: Soul Business--Roxbury's Unity Bank | 10/28/1968 | See Source »

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