Word: aloftness
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...think they make these things up in the back room." Nonetheless, he released his own poll, which showed his cause not nearly so hopelessly behind as the general surveys. Touring the big cities last week, sometimes he was the angry, fundamentalist McGovern. Holding aloft a U.S. pineapple bomb in Philadelphia, he cried, "Does it increase our honor because the color of the bodies has been changed from white to yellow? Their blood is still red. They are still children under God." Before an assembly of unionists in Detroit, where antibusing sentiment runs high, he was uncompromising. With the exception...
...semi-circular lecture hall section, containing four theatres ranging in size from 150 seats to 500 seats. The lecture halls will be outfitted with expensive and elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rest until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...
...tiers of the New Jersey, New York and Illinois delegations. Gone were the trappings that moved Will Rogers to describe conventions as "the Fourth of July of American politics." One waited for the pipe organ to sound, for the delegates to pour into the aisles, for state banners held aloft to parade the hall...
...more than two decades, but he hesitated to push for it any sooner. "It was too weird for its time." he explains. Now he feels the time has come. He has already successfully tested small models of the plane in wind tunnels at Ames and sent other models aloft on radio controlled subsonic flights. Building a full-scale prototype would be costly and would undoubtedly involve difficult engineering problems, but NASA apparently shares Jones' enthusiasm for the plane. It recently awarded a contract for studies of the antisymmetric design to Boeing, the frustrated contractor for the vetoed American...
...semi-circular lecture hall section, containing four theatres ranging in size from 150 seats to 500 seats. The lecture halls will be outfitted with expensive and elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rust until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...