Word: girdered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of picking one official architect-such as James Gamble Rogers, who weighted the campus down with his Girder Gothic of the late 1920s and '30s, Yale turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...
...asked to demonstrate to television cameramen how the astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna go! I won't go!" The TV men were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape and momentarily disrupted communications. He was severely...