Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When British lobsterbacks burned the original Capitol in 1814, negligent builders put it back on top of the old foundation, which was scarcely deep enough to support the original walls, let alone the new walls and the huge dome that was added half a century later. By 1958 the east front under the dome had deteriorated so badly that Congress voted $11 million for Capitol Architect J. George Stewart's plan to replace it in marble. To provide more office space and a new restaurant, the central section was pushed out 321 ft., distorting its proportions in many eyes...
Wolf Von Eckardt, architectural critic for the Washington Post, complained that the extension would completely obliterate the soaring vision of the great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without extension-in far older monuments such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Despite such criticism, Congress appears taken with Stewart's idea, shortly before adjournment voted him $330,000 for detailed plans and a scale model of the "new" Capitol...
...fall, he recalls wryly, the state's Democratic campaign managers tried to capitalize on his relative anonymity with election ads depicting Lyndon Johnson on the telephone asking, "Dan whoT Last April, Evans had a chance to get even. When an earthquake hit the state and fractured the capitol dome in Olympia, the Governor got a call from the White House. As Evans tells it, "The voice on the other end said: This is Lyndon.' Boy, was I tempted...
...crew of aquanauts surfaced from the U.S. Navy's Sealab II (TIME, Sept. 17), and its 45-day mission at a depth of 205 ft. was declared an "unqualified success." Off Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, a yellow and black checkerboard-patterned underwater house bobbed its round dome out of the water to the tooting of yacht whistles and the obvious satisfaction of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the pioneering French underwater explorer who had commanded the three-week mission of Con Shelf III (for Continental Shelf) from a lighthouse on shore. Allowing him self a thoroughly Gallic...
...near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome of the bartender that he "thought he was growing hair again." In three hours the bees stung 500 people. Then they buzzed off across nearby farms where they left behind flocks of dead chickens, a dozen writhing dogs, and two horses so badly stung that they could...