Word: steele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil engineer, he won degrees in engineering, law and political science, became a protégé of Robert Schuman and served at sub-Cabinet level in several Fourth Republic governments before entering the Senate. Schuman converted him into a European unionist. Poher worked with the European Coal and Steel Community, later became a member of the European Parliament at Strasbourg. Last October he was elected Senate President, succeeding its longtime leader Gaston Monnerville, who had resigned to campaign full-time against De Gaulle's referendum...
Wiggins said that new structural steel support coming from the basement, and additional supports across the floor would be needed. "This is a major job," he said...
...basic approach is a tantalizing simplicity-a column of polished steel, a square sheet of blank paper with a single word such as "Sky" lettered on it, a wooden booth with a small plaque in it labeled "Suicide." Each is intended to convey or stimulate some arcane, fey or fiendish compulsion or conceit...
...school of "Optional art," whose practitioners in vite viewers to play a sort of game by rearranging various objects in a composition to suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with microphones at either end, which-in theory at least-could be hooked up to an amplifying...
...episode reflects the phenomenal rise of Japan's auto industry, which last year leaped ahead of shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment to become the largest in the country. Last week the Japan Auto Manufacturers Association reported that Japan's twelve automakers produced 4,198,429 cars, trucks and buses during the fiscal year ending March 31, more than any other country except the United States. Passenger cars accounted for 52% of the total, raising Japan's world ranking in that field from sixth in 1967 to third, behind the U.S. and West Germany...