Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Torroja's application of the Bernoullian formula, see cut. The riblike shapes cover a pergola outside his Institute of Construction and Cement near Madrid...
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...Announced, in a move to tighten U.S. relations with Africa's new states, that the Republic of Guinea's President Sékou Touré (TIME cover, Feb. 16) had accepted an invitation to make an official U.S. visit next October...
Behind the National Geographic's familiar, fussy, yellow-bordered cover-essentially unchanged since 1910-lies a publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found...
...companies' $72 a month. Argued Metal Drainsman Ed Winters: "I'd like to see a retirement plan that starts after 25 years. Make that 20 years. That's what civil service has-why shouldn't we?" The steelman also wants enlarged health insurance to cover doctor bills short of hospitalization and to carry on after retirement. "That's when you need it most," said an Inland Steel worker...