Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there appears to be no likely site for new dormitory construction within 1500 feet of the Business School parking lot, other parking facilities might have to be provided. But the code would probably not require that facilities be University-owned...
...imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months of flight-testing, Atlas in one epochal shot was well on its way to being the No. 1 weapon of the U.S.'s strategic arsenal...
...relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi, and France's Bernard Zehrfuss could get down to work...
Bernard Zehrfuss, 48, who built his reputation with low-cost housing units in North Africa, took over on site planning, bulldozed the unconventional structures through Paris' complex building codes, coordinated multilingual teams of workmen...
...only serious technical lapse is unavoidable, given the site. Much of Godot is played lying down; since the ballroom floor is not pitched, only the first few rows can see the whole play...