Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizes, it can be made to shelter anything from newlyweds to a railway terminal with less weight and hence less cost, and, Bucky hopes, be more resistant to hurricanes or atomic-bomb blasts than conventional design's. "It would be a good moon structure too," said a Fuller enthusiast...
...tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...
Died. James ("Big Jim") Norris, 73, president of Chicago's Norris Grain Co. and famed sportsman; in Chicago. Long a hockey enthusiast, he founded the old Chicago Shamrocks, owned the Detroit Red Wings, was part owner of five of the biggest arena corporations in the U.S. (Chicago Stadium, Madison Square Garden, St. Louis Arena, Indianapolis Coliseum, Detroit's Olympia Stadium...
...Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life, by Stefan Lorant. A labor of photographic love, consisting of sketches, cartoons and every known* picture ever taken of Lincoln (500), with running commentary by a Lincoln enthusiast who first discovered his hero when he read the Gettysburg address in a German concentration camp...
...stay there and come down in one piece, the gliding enthusiast must know his sailplane, air, clouds, and the terrain below as well as he knows his own cockpit. Given a steady wind blowing up from sharp-rising, sunbaked ridges, a good glider pilot can soar for hours, executing elongated figure-eights above the ridge's windward slope. He can travel for hundreds of miles, using the character of clouds and of the ground below as his guide to finding the hot radiated updrafts and avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves...