Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running or just puttering, U.S. hand-ballers compete on courts ranging from a single concrete wall in a Brooklyn park to the four-walled, all-glass, air-conditioned, $32,000 pleasure dome given to an Aurora, Ill. Y.M.C.A. by Robert W. Kendler, founder and president of the U.S. Handball Association and chief evangelist of a sport of evangelists. Kendler lives for handball; on the side, he is a Chicago millionaire (building construction). Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television...
Maybeck populated the Bay Area with houses, but his best-loved work is the largest pink elephant ever built, San Francisco's towering Palace of Fine Arts. Erected for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome and far-flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster...
...falcons aloft, land equal to two city blocks is being cleared. A restaurant and steam-heated offices have been set up for U.S. officials and engineers who are converging on the site. On its way from Texas to Russia this week is a huge, 200-ft. gold-anodized geodesic dome to crown the exhibition's central building, a 30,000-sq.ft hall that will accommodate 5,000 visitors an hour. Russian name for the U.S. exhibition: Ugolok Ameriki, or "A Corner of America...
...safe eight flashes per second). Jacobs controls the sound from a console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes up his own random sounds to suit his taste...
Graham's first three contestants this week were Cleo V. Dome, a Bucklin, Kans. football coach who wants $15,000 to start a wholesale and retail seed-cleaning business; Del and Betty Robinson, who need $10,000 to start a shop specializing in party planning and decorating; and Tony Oropesa, a restaurant operator who wants $15,000 to start a seafood restaurant in Wichita. Private Enterprise has $314,000 available for loans, may make Opportunity Knocks a national program if it is a success in Kansas. Graham hopes to see a program with no losers. Says he: "Somewhere...