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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell officials do not anticipate the first commercial application of their new technique for several more years. They concede that much work must still be done before the crystals can be produced in commercial size and quantities. Nonetheless, they are convinced that this is one technical bubble that is unlikely to burst once it leaves...
Outraged Bystanders. Two days before the anniversary, crowds in Wenceslas Square clashed with police and troops, who seized on the mildest provocations-even catcalls or whistles-to beat demonstrators and hose them with water cannons. As the crowd around the equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas grew in size, ten armored personnel carriers inched slowly from side streets. "They can't be ours?" a secretary asked incredulously as she emerged from a building. People tried to escape into shops and hotels. At the doorway of the House of Food, Prague's leading delicatessen, a jittery cop shot...
...called it. Born in 1886 in Aachen, Germany, he received no formal architectural education. But he learned from his father, a master stonemason, to value the particular heft and quality of pure materials. One of his first jobs consisted of designing stucco ornaments for a local architect-"full-size details of Louis XIV in the morning, Renaissance in the afternoon." The experience left him with a lasting disdain for the falseness of decoration and a lasting relish for the honesty of materials. His buildings sprang from them, not from any abstract notion of forms...
Promoted to Hilton president in 1966, Barron immediately began reorganizing a management that had been as spread out as its hotels. By centralizing the purchase of housekeeping items under a subsidiary, Hotel Equiment Corp., he saved the parent company money on everything from carpets to cutlery. He reduced the size of hotel payrolls and, to save capital while expanding, formed partnerships with other investors to build Hilton hotels in such places as New York, San Francisco and Hawaii...
...Kravonia and Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan were among Greene's favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee pirate with an aeroplane like a box kite and bombs the size of tennis balls." The Viper, he admits, gave him a permanent vision of "perfect evil walking the world where perfect good can never walk again, and only the pendulum ensures that after all in the end justice is done." It was Miss Bowen too, apparently, who seduced him into writing...