Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built his first simulator in 1929 and, as the head of Link Aviation from 1935 to 1954, went on to produce trainers for radar, gunnery and space navigation. Starting in the 1950s, he helped to develop a series of manned ocean explorers, including the first practical submersible with an exit hatch to allow divers to explore the ocean floor at far greater depths than before...
Travelers pulling off I-90 at the Wall exit (the one with the 80-ft. dinosaur next to the Highway) thread through station wagons and campers jamming Main Street. Once inside Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly...
...Mary Berry. Win's wife and mother of his five children. She makes an early exit when her Europe-bound plane crashes into the Atlantic...
...release, or B elements. The building begins with a low-key introduction to water-large, blue bubble-tubes at the entrance-and after a long, steadily mounting crescendo ends on a sort of coda of quiet contemplation: a globe, 8 ft. in diameter and cut in half, frames the exit, graphically demonstrating the fragility of the oceans in relation to the earth's huge mass. Observes Chermayeff: "Museum fatigue is a serious problem, and I did not want that to happen here...
...production of 'Henry V' continues in Stratford through August 2. The drive to the AST grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and three-quarter hours at legal speeds, via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 86 and 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air-conditioned theatre tend to start promptly at 2 and 8 o'clock. There are facilities for picnickers on the premises...