Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gift Certificates. Despite their efforts, Eastern trains continue to run a sad second to the still grand lines of the West. The Santa Fe last year spent $8,000,000 on new dome cars for its El Capitan from Chicago to Los Angeles and its San Francisco Chief, also refurbished its famed Super Chief. The Santa Fe now offers gift certificates for train-trip presents and, for $12, a meal-ticket book good for all five meals on trains between Chicago and Los Angeles...
...three marble monuments and memorials--to the men who forged in the Presidency an instrument of power and compassion--remind a grateful nation that it has been blessed in its gravest trials with its greatest leaders. In the distance, the dome of the Capitol covers a milieu of wisdom and folly, Presidential ambitions and antagonisms, political ideals and ideologies...
...pavilion was designed by R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who developed the geodesic dome. The main structure of pavilion will be one of these domes, 200 feet high and 250 feet in diameter...
...geodesic dome is a sphere formed by tetrahedrons--pyramids made of equilateral triangles, the simplest possible shape in three dimensions. This gives the largest possible space to the interior dome with a minimum of surface area surrounding it. It makes a lightweight, easily-assembled, low-cost frame...
...downtown Djakarta, pull the black Moslem cap of leadership from his balding head, toss aside his girdle, and relax in sandals and slacks with his lovely Japanese wife Devi. The legion of servants, the carefree dinners, the delight of being on top -all of it made Bogor a pleasure dome beyond compare. Not any longer...