Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections who. in anticipation of World War II, removed one of the world's finest art collections from Munich's Alte Pinakothek, safely hid the more than 1,000 masterpieces in salt mines, and after the war campaigned to rebuild the bombed-out gallery where in 1957 the collection again went on view; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...prison camp before escaping) were for the first time engaged in action. "I no longer pretended that I could escape my own human condition," she explains. "Instead I endeavored to bear it." The liberation of Paris (where the book ends) left Sartre and Simone full of plans to help rebuild France...
...outbreak of World War II, Davidson joined the Canadian Army, eventually becoming commander of Camp T. F. Lawrence, a guerilla warfare unit. After the war he helped rebuild a Dutch town which had been destroyed in battle, led a troop of soldiers to England where they did land work on a British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel...
...nowhere to go, tearing down neighborhoods that could have been saved. Now they are trying to avoid both faults. New York and Boston are using "selective redevelopment'' aimed at sprucing up old neighborhoods-such as Boston's historic North End-without heavy demolition and rebuilding. In many cities local citizens' committees are consulted at every step of redevelopment. Says Chicago's Mayor Daley: "You can't just rebuild a city physically without looking into the needs and wants of the people." When a Tennessee family in Boston refused to be budged because they were...
...handsome Count Carlo Faina, chairman of the giant Montecatini chemical complex. Despite an aristocratic heritage-he holds a longstanding title granted by Pope Pius IX and confirmed by the Italian royal family-Faina joined Montecatini 35 years ago as one of 360 applicants answering a want ad. Assigned to rebuild the chemical complex after the war, he defied stockholder opposition by multiplying the outstanding shares in order to obtain new capital. Now, with sales of $600 million a year, Montecatini slugs it out internationally with the likes of Du Pont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries...