Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GENERAL MOTORS' FUTURAMA, designed by Albert Kahn Associates, has a façade looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney...
...some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced his own saxophone and ended the evening noodling away at various Dixieland selections while Buddy Bohn supplied the obbligato. Bohn invited Bhumibol to renounce his throne and hit the road too. Bhumibol paid Buddy's passage to Hong Kong instead...
...telescoping of history heightens its ironies. In a letter to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII can scarcely contain his urge to make her the "only mistress" of his life: "Whose pretty duckys I trust shortly to kiss." The very next reading is a letter Anne Boleyn sent from the Tower to plead for her life. Then comes a king who does not plead. Peremptorily charged with treason, Charles I stands on his divine rights: "I do not know how a king can be a delinquent." He rebukes his judges with a concept that is still sound after four centuries: "If power...
...further step toward "attaining the pinnacle of democracy by introducing self-management everywhere." It continues and expands the old system of having all significant policies of each factory determined by a council of the workers. Council elections are secret ballots, and some plants have councils which do not contain a single member of the Communist Party...
...Varsity's overall superiority in both offense and defense was amply shown by its ability to contain Dartmouth's best efforts even when short-handed. With their sixth man off the ice in the second period, Weiland's skaters played such control hockey for two minutes that they out-shot their opponents...