Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the beginning, the great Dixon-Yates ruckus of 1954-55 was more a teapot tempest than a Teapot Dome, but the Eisenhower Administration recoiled from it as though it were superheated steam. In Washington last week, the U.S. Court of Claims ruled the celebrated power contract "honest" and, in effect, rebuked the Administration for not having the courage of its convictions...
...prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...
Quite a few Democrats, it turned out, were just as unhappy about Paul Butler. Before the next morning's explosive headlines had grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...
Time, earthquakes, and most recently, mortar shells, lobbed into the sanctuary during the Jerusalem fighting in 1948, all but ruined the ancient structure. Mosaics were smashed; the 11th century outer dome of wood and lead bulged, showing signs of collapse. As soon as peace returned to the Holy Land, the King of Jordan organized an emergency committee to restore the mosque...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...