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Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski is 80.
Actor-director Robert Redford is 77.
Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 70.

— The Associated Press

Related material —

Rented Lips …

… and Your Shiny Friend.

Connecting the dots with Clarke's Last Tale—

"The book is about a young Sri Lankan mathematician
who finds a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
while an alien invasion of Earth is in progress."

— Wikipedia on Arthur C. Clarke's 2008 novel The Last Theorem

Related material—

The May 7, 2006 link from Thursday morning's The 256 Code
and the Tribute link in last night's Your Shiny Friend.

Aluminum, Your Shiny Friend

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Citicorp Center Vital Statistics: Location: New York, NY Completion Date: 1977 Cost: $175 million Height: 915 feet Stories: 59 Materials: Steel Facing Materials: Aluminum, reflective glass

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“From the very beginning, the Citicorp Center (today, the Citigroup Center) in New York City was an engineering challenge. When planning for the skyscraper began in the early 1970s, the northwest corner of the proposed building site was occupied by

The church allowed Citicorp to build the skyscraper under one condition: a new church would have to be built on the same corner, with no connection to the Citicorp building and no columns passing through it.

How did the engineers do it? They set the 59-story tower on four massive columns, positioned at the center of each side, rather than at the corners. This design allowed the northwest corner of the building to cantilever 72 feet over the new church.”

Source: PBS, Building BIG.

Citigroup (NYSE:C) is said to be the largest financial services conglomerate in the world. 

For more on the close relationship between churches and banks, see the works of T. S. Eliot and a description of the City of London,

The Square Mile.

For more on Eliot, architecture,  and another Harvard man, use links in the previous entry.