Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
Last week Engineer Nervi's latest building, Rome's Palazzetto dello Sport (see color pages) was in full operation with a solid calendar of basketball games, boxing matches and fencing competitions. Neither the appreciative spectators, gazing at the soaring, concrete-ribbed dome free of any obstructing pillars, nor the art critics, who praised it as "a masterpiece of creative genius ... perfection," would believe that Nervi had no esthetic scheme in mind. But it was a fact that he had merely worked out an orderly system for transmitting the flow of the great dome's stress along...
...year, Ambrosia Lake will have 7,275 tons of uranium mill capacity a day-about half the U.S. total. But Ambrosia Lake's mining men are plowing up surrounding areas in search of more ore. Floyd Odium's Lisbon Uranium Corp. is prospecting around nearby San Mateo Dome, and Superior Oil Co. (California), has struck ore 30 miles west of the Dysart mine. When atomic power becomes a commercial reality, dusty Ambrosia Lake expects to have a permanent base for its newfound prosperity...
...racy Messerschmitt Tiger, only 50 in. high with two seats arranged tandem fashion under a lift-up plastic dome. Fastest of all the midgets, the Tiger has been clocked at 87 m.p.h...
Aluminum Pleasure Dome. The first aluminum dome auditorium in the U.S. was erected by Kaiser Aluminum Co. at Virginia Beach, Va. for a municipally owned convention center to seat 2,200. Made of 575 diamond-shaped aluminum panels bolted and sealed together, the stressed-skin aluminum shell is 145 ft. in diameter, 49½ ft. high. The auditorium's cost...