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...Columbus, Ohio, a fully prefabricated, 74,000-sq.-ft. structure was being put up in 50 working days as an exhibition building for the Ohio State Fair. Parts for the rigid steel framework were carried to the site and riveted together, and 204 pre-finished concrete panels, measuring up to 8 by 10 ft., were bolted to the steel to form walls. The panels were made by the Marietta Concrete Corp., which in three years has made slabs (two layers of concrete sandwiching a 1½-in. layer of Fiberglas insulation) for 25 large buildings...
Within the rather contrived framework of a sideshow stand, where the customers try to knock down figures of assorted sins, the picture illustrates each transgression in turn. Avarice and Anger are embodied in a vignette about a greedy landlord, his wife and a poor tenant. Sloth tells how St. Peter dispatches a female emissary from heaven to slow down the feverish life on earth. In Lust, an adolescent girl is disillusioned when her mother has an affair with a roving artist. All three episodes are commonplace in writing and direction...
Said Salan: "My decisions are made within a certain framework established in France before I took command. The framework is secret and personal." Salan described how he had stopped the Communists short of the Mekong River in Laos by creating hedgehog positions in the Plaine des Jarres and at Luang Prabang, reinforcing them by air: "The enemy had 40 divisions: I had twelve. I had to wage a cautious war of maneuver...
Fixing his heavy, horn-rimmed glasses in place, the President faced his weekly press conference and began to read in a low voice. "I would like to present to you . . . with fairly broad strokes, what I consider the sensible framework . . . [for] an ever more effective posture of defense." Quickly he came to the heart of his defense-security philosophy: "I have always firmly believed that there is a great logic in the conduct of military affairs. There is an equally great logic in economic affairs. If these two logical disciplines can be wedded, it is then possible to create...
...rearming of Western Germany, a U.N. seat-and Formosa -for Red China, no change in Red domination of Eastern Europe. Though there seemed no meeting of minds at all, the "Soviet leaders" still wanted "a serious, businesslike discussion of problems both by direct negotiations and, when necessary, within the framework...