Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churchill Pavilion has been mounted with great skill by Designer Philip George in the vast and vacant geodesic dome that was called the Assembly Hall. The story of the great man's life is told in a walk-through illuminated by 500 photographs, after which visitors find themselves surrounded by 32 charming Churchill paintings, which amply demonstrate that he was no mere Sunday painter.* Also on display is a reconstruction of his study at Chartwell, and more than $1,000,000 worth of Churchill memorabilia...
Atop one of Jerusalem's olive-tree-cluttered ridges stands one of man's most unusual monuments to the past. Against the skyline, a white-tiled dome swells from a watery moat to contrast with a black basalt wall aflicker with flames. These dramatic structures mark the new home, dedicated last week, for Israel's collection of Dead Sea Scrolls (see opposite...
...ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...
...judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador...
Well, they can't in the Astrodome either - in daytime, anyway. Last week its resident tenants, the Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead...