Word: specializes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most radically modern structures. He studied photographs, the designs left by Ammannati, notes left by the head mason. Under his direction, the Arno was dammed, and the river bottom was searched for fragments left after the explosion. Studying the shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry that Ammannati had employed. Architect...
Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
...Clayton, one of Texas' elder statesmen, a founder of the giant Anderson. Clayton & Co., cotton firm, a onetime Under Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Clayton's message to his fellow Texans who expect the Government to cut imports more: stop trying to promote the "special interest of certain oil producers against the national interest...
...self-respecting people want charity; they want to earn their way. To seize the initiative in the cold war, we must first make ourselves worthy of the leadership of the free world. But we will never do that so long as we continue to act in the short-term special interest of our minority groups." Concluded Clayton: "Our oil imports come partly from Venezuela (buyer annually of $1 billion of American goods, the economic equivalent of 250,000 American jobs), partly from Canada (our best customer in all the world), partly from the Middle East. Are we going to make...
Bill Bernbach ("I'm probably the only agency president who lives in Brooklyn") created the agency as a special vehicle for his own strongly held ideas about advertising. A onetime speechwriter for the New York World's Fair, he began his advertising career with the old William Weintraub agency, became a vice president of Grey Advertising in 1945. There, while working on the account of Ohrbach's, a low-priced Manhattan and Los Angeles department store, he stressed sophistication instead of price with the eyecatching illustration and a minimum of copy that later became his trademark...