Word: cements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such doubts, domes are mushrooming in a dizzying array of skins-from the wood and metal favored by kit manufacturers to brick, stone, cement and plastic. Kahn has experimented with domes of plywood walls insulated with nitrogen-filled vinyl pillows, aluminum frames covered with Plexiglas, and wood covered with burlap then sprayed with quick-hardening plastic foam. Perhaps the most interesting new project is one involving the use of Mylar plastic film coated so that one side reflects light while the other is transparent. Outsiders thus see only an opaque dome, but those inside have an unobstructed view...
...what does a manager do when, in the midst of a good-natured victory celebration in a New York hotel, a mini-Sahara desert is formed on the tenth floor when a spirited player turned self-styled sheik inverts a few cement cigarette urns? It's not that easy to dispose of a beach in a hall-way without rasing a few eyebrows...
December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...
...been in Cambodia now for a month, arriving when it looked as if the aid would soon be appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
...Quinn saves by paying off the mortgage seconds before the creditors start moving the furniture out of Currier House. George Bennett sings the Henry Mancini theme song, "Every Tub on its Own Bottom." Below is a shot from the climactic final scene in which ground is broken for a cement-and-concrete nuclear reactor and photocopying center on the former site of Harvard Yard and Memorial Hall. BENNETT announces, "With construction costs rising 73 per cent a month, we just can't afford to wait until we have the money and space," as AL VELLUCCI looks on, smiling...