Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1959, Jaguaribe served as president of a steel company of joint public and private ownership. The military coup of 1964 forced him to resign last June...
...sistant Attorney General at the Justice Department in charge of public lands, recently worked with the President on the budget and matters concerning the Interior Department. - To be special assistant to the President: W. (for William) Marvin Watson, 40, assistant to the president of Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co., chairman of the Texas State Democratic Com mittee, and skilled political organizer who helped in the President's election campaign. As all-round administrative assistant, Watson will get $28,500 a year, will perform liaison work with Governors, and in effect will take over the official duties once performed...
Concrete Curtains. For medieval master builders, the most permanent material came from local quarries. Today the commonest material is steel-reinforced concrete, a fine example of which is the cathedral-sized church of Notre Dame in Royan. Pioneered in Europe by the late French architect Auguste Ferret, it makes possible spans and spires undreamed of by medieval minds. To fill in the voids, glass craftsmen have been called upon to hang handsome curtains that would have as tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work...
...Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled runs, speeds up to 90 m.p.h.-and took turns dominating the sport. The U.S. won five championships in the 1930s and '40s, and Italy's great steersman, Eugenic Monti, led his team to eight world titles (both two-man and four-man) in seven years...
...America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left in 1950 to become a U.S. Steel industrial relations executive and one of the country's best-known banquet speakers, reliving the rides of the Four Horsemen some 250 times a year...