Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships (TIME, Feb. 15), waited for delivery of one of the fanciest yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian...
...Lundigan) is a rocket jockey, the first man ever to ride a guided missile through the wide open spaces beyond the earth's atmosphere. The heroine (Martha Hyer) is a "space-medicine girl" who "dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook-the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians...
...DOME-SWEET-DOME "MODERN" Creates transparent bubbles which may be fine for mountain climbers and deep-sea divers but are alarming to "introverted people who" [like] dark domestic lairs with thick walls...
...without using too much steel and still not have too many supporting columns. The "floating" concrete roof proved to be the answer. Designed on roughly the same principles as New York's Hayden Planetarium, the auditorium is unique in that there are only three points of support for the dome. In order to support the triangular roof, the theater is wedge-shaped. The main auditorium has no balcony and seats some 1,200 people; while downstairs there is a smaller, sharply pitched theatre which seats only...
...crusading makes it a more logical candidate for the prizes than other papers (Publisher Pulitzer stays out of the discussion when the P-D is a candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration...