Word: fa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first siren whoosh of the commercial jetliner not only changed man's notion of time and travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes...
...that lays claim to being its spiritual center: Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which encompasses the supposed sites of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The thousands of pilgrims who seek it out every year find the church little more than a musty ruin. The southern façade is some 6 in. out of plumb, held up by a cat's cradle of iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists from falling masonry. The facing of Christ...
...country's most respected old Boers who broke the façade of Nationalist unity. Henry Allan Fagan, 70, until last year chief justice of the Union's Supreme Court, is both the country's most eminent jurist and its best-loved Afrikaans author; his novels and verse are found in practically every veld farmhouse. In a book published early this month, called Our Responsibility, Fagan pronounced Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's rigid apartheid "hopelessly impractical," and pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from...