Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants to meet nature on its own ground, would be bound to cross his path somewhere...
...heavy engine to stand up against the battering it gets. Last week NSU Werke motor company of Neckar-sulm, West Germany described a gas engine that has neither pistons nor valves. Invented by a mechanical genius named Felix Wankel, it was developed with financial help from Curtiss-Wright Corp., which provided a fervid earlier announcement of it (TIME, Dec. 7) but no mechanical details...
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...engine, which "still requires much research before it can become a commercial proposition." Privately, the Germans were furious; they claimed that the engine was their invention, that C-W had helped with development funds, and that any announcement at the moment was premature. But on Wall Street, where Curtiss-Wright stock has been hovering in the mid-30s for most of the year, the stock hopped 3¼ points to 35¼. Next morning C-W could not open for 35 minutes because of all the orders. When it finally got going, the price was 38 a share, up another...
...week's end the stock had firmed a bit, was back to 36½. But both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any other officer had bought or sold C-W stock recently. SEC Regional Administrator Paul Windels Jr. questioned Hurley about the price movements of the stock. Said Windels: "We are investigating to see if this sequence of corporation actions was done deliberately to have an effect on the market...