Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...
Seedlings & Time. Smoke boiled 10,000 ft. into the sky; the fire raced with the wind through a deep-timbered basin towards the Boole sequoia (world's third largest) and towards the steep gorges of the Kings Canyon, as deep in places as the Grand Canyon. "If it jumps down," said Geil, "we're in trouble. That's mankiller country. If we don't catch her here, there's no stopping her. She could go for miles on both sides of the river...
...fire stormed downhill through the basin, Geil sent in a picked crew with curt orders to dig a last-ditch firebreak. His orders: the crew must be prepared to hole up in the cliffs, to live without supplies, lay through the fire if trapped,* but "tie up" the basin. They did. Last week a ranger and three Indians with 1,200 ft. of line clambered into Kings Canyon (which drops 4,000 ft. in two miles) to keep the fire from shooting along the canyon's wall. Hemmed in, the fire came at last under control. Loss...
...raps out either Shake a Hand (everybody shakes a hand) or an insistent Kiss Your Baby (if there is no one to kiss unescorted women, a waiter may do the honors). Other numbers include such oldtime favorites as I Thought I Heard Benny Bolden Say, Trees, Memphis Blues, Basin Street...
...will rent it from the government and spend another $50 million there for hotels, an aquarium, convention hall and theater. Even then he does not intend really to rest. On the Kona coast 200 miles southeast of Waikiki, Kaiser plans to spend $40 million for hotels, a yacht basin, hillside homes, fishing boats. Said he: "There's a need for more vacation facilities-a human need. When I was 22 I decided Florida would never develop a tourist business and passed up a chance to be in on the ground floor there. Then I went on to figure that...