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...Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have to go ahead and try what you know by intuition." To prove his theory of intuition, he founded...
...Dentist 93 95 Engineer 58 71 Research Scientist 16 16 Teacher, administrator in secondary school 45 52 University professor or administrator 56 62 Writer, artist, musician 44 36 Minister 19 24 Officer -- Armed Forces 13 15 Government, administrator or diplomat 35 41 Lawyer 75 109 Business Executive 212 253 Contractor 12 7 Own Store 34 34 Business for self, not store 70 45 Insurance, Real Estate 20 14 Salesman (employee) 60 37 Skilled technician 30 20 Foreman, factory supervisor 18 13 Clerical Office worker 65 53 Laborer, factory hand 57 40 Public worker 10 10 Farmer 11 19 Housekeeper, Housewife...
...padrone in a Sicilian village. The distant government in the capital city of Lagos hardly interfered. Chief Obodo had his own courts, collected goats and cows from the villagers for tribute, had his own murder squad to enforce his orders. He boasted: "After God comes Chief Obodo." When a contractor who had already begun negotiations discovered that Obodo was interested in the same job, he hurriedly withdrew, sent goats and libations to the chief as peace offerings. Obodo's power extended even to the seat of government. He ordered a legislator to resign from one political party and join...
...avoid this argument, the Administration has urged vague claims of "national security" requiring the operation of the Philadelphia contractor. Since the war, this firm has been awarded contracts in England totalling over twelve times the value of the present one, all of which have been in areas affecting the "national security" of Great Britain. To discourage British trade is to invite retaliation, which would reduce the business of the very American company whose continued operation is the alleged goal of the present contract. Critics also point out that earlier the Administration said the dam was not worth constructing...
William Godfrey, 69, son of a Liverpool haulage contractor, is a scholarly, somewhat remote man who headed the English College in Rome from 1930 to 1937. In 1938 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Britain, the first papal delegate to that country since the Reformation. In World War II Archbishop Godfrey also served as chargé d'affaires in the Polish government in exile. In 1953 he was made Archbishop of Liverpool, and three years later became Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales...