Word: wais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beehive's director, Dr. G. Van der Wai, an unabashed enthusiast for things made in the U.S.A., turned naturally to the U.S. for an architect. Breuer responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there...
...face, ballyhooed as an "offbeat, low-pressure Wally Cox-Will Rogers type," was crewcut George Gobel (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Straining at a deadpan, Midwestern delivery ("Wai, I'll be a dirty bird"), Gobel was better at dialogue than monologue. The show's two sketches were unpretentious, underplayed and very funny...
...magazine; it sounds like a letter to a family of 5,000 children spread around the world. A typical entry: "Wellington, New Zealand. Sept. 13: arose 5:30, breakfast 6 a.m. Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous, but I'm afraid will not whet our appetites for the big luncheon at the mess hall...
...Really Safe Place." Devout Orvietan women began to show alarm. They were further stirred up when Mayor Gregori enlarged upon the dangers of travel, how shaking might crack the reliquary's enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori...