Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever new." In the Sacred Heart Church, young men in blue and gold jackets knelt in prayer as a priest pronounced the ancient greeting Dominus vobiscum. Across the 1,100-acre campus, bulldozers chewed the frozen earth, and riveters set steel beams arattling. Under construction: a geodesic-dome student center, a federally financed radiation laboratory, a $3,000,000 computer center, a ten-story library big enough to seat half the student body (total...
Beneath the blue and white dome of the General Assembly, more than 60 speakers are pleading, arguing, threatening their way through the China debate. Once again, for the 12th year, the U.S. is fighting to keep out Red China, the regime that stands formally condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor. Once again, the Communist nations and some neutrals are urging Peking's admission-though the sincerity of their efforts is in some doubt. Where once the U.S. could muster enough votes to sidetrack the matter from year to year, this time the U.N.'s new members...
...This is a very useful property, to say the least," Mr. Candela points out. "Suppose you tried something like a dome-the mathematics is simple enough, but to build the form you must twist the wood in a very difficult manner. Domes are difficult, and very expensive. I have only ever done three or four of them...
Beneath the silver dome of the Illinois statehouse at Springfield there were cartographers enough for Rand McNally. Republican mapmakers and Democratic mapmakers, pressure-group mapmakers and reform-minded mapmakers, all were busily plotting their own charts for redistricting Illinois-and the outcome of their efforts may have a lot to do with who controls the U.S. House of Representatives after next year's elections...
...loss for a grandiose idea, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeclcendorf, boss of the widespread Webb & Knapp empire, acquired a controlling interest in Yonkers Raceway for International Recreation Corp., a Webb & Knapp affiliate. Estimated cost: $17 million. Zeckendorf's avowed intention is to build a geodesic dome over the track to make it a year-round sports arena. More likely, he will merge the profitable Yonkers with International in order to write off the losses on International's Freedomland amusement park, which has yet to show a profit. Always in need of ready cash, Zeckendorf also unloaded...