Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, though, the Assembly building will be elaborately functional. Its central, circular meeting room, capped by a shallow dome, will have tiers of balconies, press boxes and television booths. Built to hold 850 delegates, 900 spectators and 350 reporters, it will supply everyone present with a fixed receiver for listening to translations of what goes on. Delegates' desks will have mikes as well, and a pushbutton voting system. If all goes well, U.N. delegates will be settling into their new desks by the spring...
...hullabaloo of argument, President Truman tried to make up his mind last week whether he should sign or veto the Kerr gas bill (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The bill's opponents loudly damned it as the biggest raid by "special interests" since Teapot Dome. Just as warmly, the bill's backers called it indispensable for the further growth of the natural gas industry...
...Lowell's most distinctive features is the set of bells that came from Russia and now rest just under the blue dome House tower. Freshmen entering Lowell will learn more about these bells some quite Sunday morning next Fall...
This huge telescope is housed in the largest building at Oak Ridge, a dome-shaped shell with rotating walls. Electric power, stepped up by generators, operates the instrument and moves the walls along their built in track. Since all the operations can be directed by a set of pushbuttons attached to a lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there...
...ancient dome, and all its treasures...