Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unharmed. One evening last fortnight, however, as Leakey, his wife and his stepdaughter Diana Hartley were having supper at the farm, a band of 30 Mau Mau swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana emerged an hour later, her mother was lying dead on the lawn, cruelly slashed with Mau Mau knives. Gray Leakey was nowhere to be found...
...André Girard's stained glass for a chapel at Palo Alto, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25) is rich in ideas. The Vatican has been called, with good reason, a citadel of conservatism in art, yet it has commissioned a rugged individualist named Giacomo Manzu to design a new door for St. Peter...
...higher and narrower. What we want is a lower automobile that looks wider." At the side of the car, Curtice stopped again. Why should the belt line (i.e., the line formed by the bottom of the windows) be straight and unbroken? When a designer explained that only the two-door models would have a racy dip in the belt line, Curtice suggested: "Don't you think we might try it on a four-door type, too?" As he left the room, molders set to work making the suggested changes. A few days later, Red Curtice was back...
...their angle as the accelerator is pressed to the floor, adding a big extra kick for passing. And the Century and Roadmaster have boosted horsepower from 195 and 200 respectively to 236 h.p. In a few months Buick and Olds will both have a brand-new model: a four-door hardtop that has the sporty look of the two-door models, plus the roominess of a sedan...
Members of the committee who will act as academic advisors are Crane Brinton, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History, Edward C. Bursk, Editor of the Harvard Business Review, Frederick B. Deknatel, William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Herold C. Hunt, Charlest William Eliot Professor of Education, and Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government...