Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build up its case, the committee called in two scientists, still bitter against Strauss for his part in getting the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lifted in 1954, in a sequel to the fierce battle in which Strauss urged-and Oppenheimer opposed-a program to develop an H-bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger...
...time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...hands on the wet paint, he left the palm print rather than doctor the surface and destroy the spontaneous feeling. "I'm not trying to be a virtuoso," he explains, "but I have to do it fast. It's not like poker, where you can build to a straight flush or something. It's like throwing dice. I can't save anything...
...Models. With such imaginative merchandising, John Long last year built and sold 2,500 houses worth more than $30 million, shared the home-building record of the year with Miami's Mackle brothers, who build their houses for General Development Corp. (TIME, March 30). Unlike the Mackles and most other big builders, Long is building all his houses in a single location, plans to put up at least 8,000 more houses before Maryvale is completed. He offers new models every six months to attract customers. Says Long: "It's like retooling and offering new models...
...soon realizes what a fool he has been: Luisa is pregnant, and they have nowhere to go. In desperation, Natale decides to build one of the "abusive dwellings"-one-room squatter shacks-that spring up overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...