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...exactly named "in honor" of Ernest T. Weir. Rather, when Weir bought a tract of farm land in the state's panhandle in 1909 and built a sprawling steelmaking complex, he needed people and houses to go along with his factory. Thus the town was born. Today Weirton Steel Co. is a division of National Steel Corp., but a majority of the labor force in Weirton (pop. 25,536) still works in the rumbling, fuming steelworks along Main Street. "It's sink or swim together," says Mary Brula, a bank teller whose husband has worked at Weirton Steel...
...arid Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
...landscapes of his projects. The Nesbitt House in Los Angeles (1942), for instance, has a decidedly rustic ambience. The vigorous textures of rough brick and redwood board and batten predominate. The hard, angular lines of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs (1946) deliberately contrast with nature. The spindly steel columns, fragile-looking window walls and beams that poke freely into the air are a reinterpretation of classic Japanese architecture...
Forming a necklace across a quarter of the North American continent, the lakes are an important artery for commerce, allowing ships to ferry such products of the American heartland as grain, steel and timber to countries around the world. They also are a major sport fishery for such species as lake trout, salmon and muskellunge and an aquatic playground for vacationers. Environmentalists used to fear that some of the lakes were dead or dying, but the era of mindless dumping has finally ended, and the water's purity seems to be improving from year to year...