Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their prey. Others, pretending to collect alms in the neighborhood, used minicameras to photograph his visitors. D.S.T. men with movie cameras filmed his regular rendezvous with another man in Paris' lonely Rue Botzaris. They noticed that before each clandestine meeting he chalked the letter k on a nearby wall...
...moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
...villages, he has exploited shell structure to produce new forms whose strength comes from shape and whose beauty springs from mathematical curves possible only in modern reinforced concrete. Torroja is fond of walking his institute visitors under the sickle-shaped ribs of the pergola that spring from the outside wall and curve elegantly overhead like jets of water frozen in a high wind, explaining with professional pride that they are actually "Bernoullian lemniscates* with zero end curvature." Says Torroja, "Every mathematical curve has a nature of its own, the accuracy of a law, the expression of an idea, the evidence...
...These Are My Hogs." Mutual funds sing a melodious song: cash in on a growing economy and build a valuable hedge against inflation. They have taken the specialized world of Wall Street and put it within reach of every man with enough money to buy a fund share, which is kept low-priced, usually between...
Leavey, who will serve as chairman until his retirement in July. Geneen's resignation came as a surprise to Raytheon President Charles Francis Adams and a shock to Wall Street. Geneen simply walked into Adams' office and announced: "I'm resigning." Company insiders say Geneen wanted Adams' spot as chief executive, realized that Adams was not about to yield. Geneen's resignation sent Raytheon's stock down 6½ points, touching off a wave of selling of other electronic issues. Reason: in his three years with Raytheon, Geneen, who came from a top post...