Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center will contain an auditorium, a planetarium, a library and a museum. Part of a complex of new state capitol buildings now under construction, the Cultural Center will cost $6,000,000, is being financed by the New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund. The planetarium's dome will float over a reflecting pool, will house an "intermediate space transit instrument" which will project the heavens not only as they appear on earth but from the moon...
Long before the first astronaut soared into orbit, test pilots had been tantalized by the dark vaulting dome of purple sky where space begins about 50 miles above the earth. As planes flew higher and higher, it often seemed just out of reach-an unknown vastness that dared venturesome flyers to penetrate it. Last week the nation's newest spaceman took the dare...
...room called The Sultan's Table has a mosquelike dome, a 25-foot "grape tree" (from which wafts the artificial fragrance of grapes), and ten strolling violinists. "I wanted them to play Stradivaris," said Sahara's Host Manny Skar, who was once convicted of burglary, "but my insurance wouldn't cover it." Manny is aggrieved that local newspapers have been digging up his past. "It is callous and unkind to repeatedly allude to my mistakes of long ago. Some of the people whom I know may not be entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial...
Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...
...Real Villain. On the evidence so far, the Estes case is not yet a Teapot Dome. But it is certainly far more than what the President and his Agriculture Secretary claimed it to be-merely a teapot tempest. The most important villain in the Estes case is the vast tangle of the farm price-support system, with its accompanying systems of production controls and surplus storage. Price-support programs provide scant help for the neediest farmers; the most bountiful benefits flow to prosperous farmers, who could get along with no Government...