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...legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie...
...study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder of the Palace of the Dawn reported that each V-shaped pillar "took two weeks to frame and pour, another two weeks to face with small stone squares as specified." But, he added: "It turned...
Died. Fred T. Ley, 86, president of Fred T. Ley & Co., Manhattan real estate management firm, builder of the 1,046-ft., 77-story Chrysler Building, world's second tallest skyscraper; in Manhattan...
...builder who works with care...
...five of them go, then three, and early this week five more. He fed and housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...