Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only task is the increasingly hopeless one of stemming the Allied tide of bombers and fighters. Pampered "knights-of-the-air" with extra rations, flashy scarves and cock-of-the-walk manners, the pilots go up to drink the "black champagne" of death. Up in the "blue shell" of the sky with "the needles on the instrument panels as light as ghosts' tongues," the fighter pilots "hammer their woodpecker's tune, exact, refined and cruel," and they die. Civilians blunder into the nightmare at Janneby West like extras stumbling onstage at the wrong cue. A wife, summoned...
...street corner. They are the gas and oil outlets of Canadian Petrofina, an aggressive subsidiary of La Compagnie Financière Beige des Pétroles, which broke into the market only three years ago and has already moved from nowhere to fourth place (behind Imperial, British American, and Shell) among Canada's 19 gas and oil distributors...
...Orchestra will be sending rhythmic ripples out over the moonlit waters of our own Charles River. The concerts, which are "half-classical," will take place every evening starting tonight (July 2) and lasting until July 14, with the exception of Saturday, July 7. The site is the Hatch Memorial Shell just off Boston's Storrow Drive, and the price, happily enough, is nothing. Just get on the subway and bring a blanket...
Saarinen's insistence on doing this has made him one of the most debated, and at the same time imaginative, architects today. Rejecting the cult of the cube as the answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery...
...even his fast rise. He got his start by trading his holdings in L. Albert & Son, a family rubber-mill and plastic-molding machinery business that he inherited from his father (1954 gross: $1,246,000), for 82% of the 1,300,900 shares of Bellanca, then a corporate shell which had some aircraft-parts contracts. Thus, he got a listing on the American Stock Exchange, and a ready market for stock. Albert promptly bought or traded into major interests in a grab bag of some 70 companies, including control of Waltham Watch Co. and Pierce Governor, of which...