Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After serving for more than a decade as a detective in the Los Angeles police department, Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions, The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome), 45, permanently traded in his pistol for a pen. When the city of Houston began a search for a new police chief, Wambaugh's name turned up on the list of eleven candidates put together by the mayor's office. According to an aide of Mayor Kathy Whitmire, not everyone on the list is a serious contender for the $81,000-a-year job, but no one will be immediately ruled...
...most intriguing American outpost is at the pole itself. Located under a giant geodesic dome, the station serves as an invaluable high-altitude (9,200 ft.) geophysical observatory. Because of the pristine quality of the air and the funnel-like shape of the earth's magnetic field at the antipodes, scientists are able to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and register the influx of cosmic rays from space (a hint of solar activity) with much greater ease than at any other place on the earth's surface. The station also acts...
...seat stadium, which resembles a giant Belgian waffle, was built only for football and offers fine sight lines, as well as what CBS claims is some of the best lighting for television in the country. As for the feared Midwest blizzard, inside there is the inflatable dome's weather-controlled environment; outside more than 100 Michigan highway department snow-removal trucks with 500 tons of rock salt are ready to pounce like orange-painted linebackers on the first snowflake that dares to fall on Super Sunday...
...snow job, however, may be on Pontiac. The 2,000 members of the press will stay in suburban Dearborn, 30 miles from the dome and Bourbon Street North; concerts by Frank Sinatra, Motor City-born Diana Ross and Rocker Rod Stewart in the pregame week are to be held in downtown Detroit; 1,200 buses will cart fans from outlying locations to and quickly from the game. Even the teams will not stay in Pontiac; both are quartered in other suburbs...
...land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...