Word: far-flung
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...Area with houses, but his best-loved work is the largest pink elephant ever built, San Francisco's towering Palace of Fine Arts. Erected for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome and far-flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster is crumbling, the paint...
...Skutt and Mutual on is the fear among private insurancemen that unless a free-enterprise way is found to insure the U.S. public against loss of income due to disease or accident, socialized medicine will take over. Flying more than 100,000 miles a year over Mutual's far-flung empire, and working six and sometimes seven days a week even when "vacationing" (as he was last week in Florida), Skutt has dedicated himself to proving that socialized medicine is not needed. The campaign is paying off. A few years ago the Federal Trade Commission took out after health...
...first function of a newsmagazine is to get the news, and in an age of speed, space and science, big news is often made in the most far-flung extremes of the globe. Such news was made last week when the Air Force rescued a 20-man scientific team from a block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force...
...Navy's underground antisubmarine warfare plotting room in Norfolk, sailormen stand 24-hour-a-day vigil over a map that represents the millions of square miles of Atlantic Ocean (see cut). From the Navy's far-flung detection posts come reports of unidentified contacts, instantly plotted with diamond-shaped metal markers. This wall-sized chart is televised daily to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright, Admiral U.S.N.; top-secret reports on sightings are typed on red paper, circulated among the proper officials of the Pentagon-and the typewriter ribbons are locked up after use to prevent unauthorized people from...
...scars of his lifelong love affair with sugar. Entrepreneur Lobo carries a .38 caliber slug imbedded in his skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour day, and spends so much time inspecting his far-flung properties that he has a Cadillac specially equipped for sleeping. For his trouble, the king of the world's sugar merchants has also collected a fortune variously estimated at between $70 million and $100 million...