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Word: ribboning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than anyone. Things began to go a bit better for Corbu from then on. The next year, on a broad green site in Poissy, he built a residence called Villa Savoye. Like his other buildings, it was basically a "pure prism" raised on stilts (pilotis), banded horizontally with long ribbon windows and topped with a roof garden. But its geometry was pure liquid, with every room and level flowing into the next as if the walls and floors could be dissovled at will, until the villa itself has become an "architectural promenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbu | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...ceremonial functions, and in this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Small Surprise | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Brown University President Emeritus Henry M. Wriston, 71, a lifelong group-think catalyst who in 1954 chaired the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, last year headed President Eisenhower's blue-ribbon Commission on National Goals, and is currently president of the goals commission's administering body, the American Assembly, returned to Brown to keynote an undergraduate conference. His opening gambit: "No one in his right mind should look to a committee to produce new ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nicot's Weed | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...history at Harvard under Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who called him "the most brilliant student I ever had." Then he sailed a few miles down the Charles River to M.I.T. to help edit the letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Historian Elting E. Morison, won his reporter's ribbon in 1950 as a State Department legman for pugnacious. New-Dealing, syndicated Columnist Robert S. Allen, with whom he co-authored The Truman Merry-Go-Round. A year later, he moved to the Post's Washington bureau as a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Remember Lord Acton | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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