Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putt, and now he faced a 35-ft. downhill curler that could easily be the first of three putts. The hole, he said, "looked two miles away." Among the 12,000 onlopkers was South Africa's Gary Player, Floyd's playing partner and closest competitor, ready to take advantage of any slip. Floyd did not clutch. He calmly arranged his pudgy form over the ball and stroked it into the cup for a birdie. Admiringly, Player walked toward him and extended a congratulatory hand. The gesture was Player's tacit admission that, two holes away from...
...arch individualist who pioneered an organic approach to space, Le Corbusier, the daring gambler with expressive form, and Walter Gropius, the dogged exponent of functionalism-all dead now-he had shaped the buildings of the 20th century. Whoever successive generations may follow, or aspire to emulate, they must take Mies into account. He set down principles and raised standards for construction from which there can be no retreat...
Homespun Cotton. "I take ideas from others," says Méndez Arceo. "I must enrich myself from others." But he adds touches of his own. For liturgical ceremonies, he wears only homespun cotton vestments and carries a plain wooden shepherd's crook; otherwise he just wears a baggy black clerical suit on his 6-ft. 2 in. frame, unembellished by either a pectoral cross or episcopal ring. His book-cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese...
Hurt Pride. Computer experts also joined in the attack, charging that the system had failed to provide the service necessary to accommodate their industry's astonishing growth. Lewis Clapp, president of Dial-Data Inc., of Newton, Mass., predicted "national telephone blackouts" by 1972 unless the telephone companies take faster action to install the lines needed for transmission of a growing deluge of computerized data. Though his fears may be valid, Clapp's criticism is a bit un fair. The computer time-sharing industry has expanded much faster than even computer experts predicted, and it is still growing...
...book is a useful and often fascinating corrective to much current theorizing about liberalism, government and decentralization. There is considerable evidence, moreover, that many Americans, growing as generally outraged about the state of the nation as Ralph Nader specifically was about the quality of U.S. automobiles, are willing to take stern measures to be sure that the machinery of government is well made and well...