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Died. Lionel Clark Sternberger, 56, proprietor of a Los Angeles steak house (The Rite Spot) who, at the hungry age of 16, experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger while helping out at his father's sandwich shop in Pasadena, thereby inventing the cheeseburger; of complications following diabetes; in Glendale, Calif...
...Great Western Savings & Loan Association's new branch building in Gardena, Calif., is thunderously massive without being forbidding. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is all roof and piers. A great flat slab 112 ft. square floats 20 ft. above the glassed-in banking space; supporting it are eight gigantic piers, like upended paving blocks...
...recent decipherment of the Minoan Linear A script has made it possible to translate the 797-line inscription carved on a marble slab that has been in the possession of my family for almost 3000 years. The first lines read as follows...
...columns upon which the one-story slab rests are treelike supports, prestressed and poured in position-first the cross-shaped trunks, then the great branches. With this sturdy but graceful forest as a foundation, the thin slab seems so light that it appears barely to touch the top branches at all. Its cantilevered edges defy gravity, its corners almost soar into space...
Luxurious Elegance. Cars park in the concrete forest, eliminating the need for an outside parking lot that can disfigure any building. The slab itself has two rectangular holes cut into it, one for beauty, the other for function. The first creates a courtyard that gives the feeling of luxurious elegance. The second surrounds a two-story steel and concrete laboratory, which, aside from connecting doors, is structurally not a part of the slab. It rests on the ground-a building within a building, so subtly encased that it in no way intrudes on the overall design...