Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of "skip-stop" planning, the architects will reduce construction costs. Every student will have an individual bedroom-study, and each suite has a connected living room on another floor...
...Skip-Stop" Planning...
...restless moments, the sweat-suited athletes stopped their interminable calisthenics on the Madison Square Garden infield. Officials, wilting behind their boiled shirts, quit clicking stop watches and came to a semblance of attention. The American flag was hoisted, a weary baritone worked his way through the national anthem and the 51st annual Millrose Games, already two-thirds over, roared a welcome to the evening's last hope for a hero. Dublin-bred Ron Delany was stripping to his skivvies for a shot at his third Wanamaker Mile, and there was a slim chance that the slim Villanova senior would...
Hans Keller is a London music critic whose aim is to stop most talk about music. This apparently self-destructive ambition is prompted by Keller's belief that emotions slip through the loom of language like herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical prose...
Public housing has always meant huge projects that pack in the most people possible per foot. But many experts now feel that such projects do nothing to stop spot decay in good neighborhoods. They suggest that a better way would be to scatter small units in strategic sites. Because Southern federal housing officials have been notably critical of the "blockbusting" theories of the housing authority, it finally set up the first experiment in Cedartown, 70 miles northwest of Atlanta...