Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a doer gets a special kick out of his times." Some of the best items are in the Rockefellers' 27-room triplex apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, others at the family's 3,000 acre estate in Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown. Rockefeller has built a house in the shadow of the family mansion, where his father still spends the winter. To show off his outdoor sculpture, he has diverted streams, moved walls, replanted the shrubbery around his white shingle Dutch colonial farmhouse...
...their own, Nationalist pilots flying U.S.-built F-86 Sabre jets put on a superb show against the Communists' faster, Russian-built MIG-17s last week...
Some of Ichijo's farmers have built themselves two-story concrete houses with fluorescent lighting; others are buying insurance policies, taking trips to hot springs resorts, putting aside money to send their children to college. Japanese women have reacted to prosperity like women everywhere. Complains Farmer Shin Suzuki: "We bought a refrigerator and declined a washing machine. But next day a salesman from the city store turned up with both and pleaded: 'Please try the washing machine for a few days; if you really don't like it, we will take it back...
...Then, under the glare of TV lights, Diefenbaker announced a 180° shift in the course of Canada's air-defense planning. The R.C.A.F. will gradually eliminate the nine jet squadrons that now guard the continent's northern frontier, replace them with radar-guided Bomarc missiles built in the U.S. Into the discard: Canada's pride and joy, the big, 1,500-m.p.h. Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor, which cost $303 million to develop, has been in flight-test for six months...
...difficult to believe that this "city" has a lifetime only six months. Most of the national pavilions are temporary structures, and some will be disassembled and transplanted to their own countries after October. The buildings constructed by the Belgians, however, have greater permanence and many of them were built with the vision that they might someday house the capital of a United Europe...