Word: gondolas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gondola Cars. The Ho Chi Minh Trail complex through eastern Laos, an area firmly in North Vietnamese and Communist Pathet Lao control, remains the other major supply route. Intelligence estimates that 7,000 to 10,000 North Vietnamese troops monthly filter south. Truck sightings have risen fivefold since the U.S. bombing halt over North Viet Nam: up to 1,000 vehicles are spotted daily, moving north and south. Recently an allied patrol even uncovered a railway track in Laos reaching to the northwestern edge of South Viet Nam. Gondola cars on the line were pulled by men or by trucks...
...sweeps about Venice in her private gondola, Peggy Guggenheim. 70, has borne a vexatious problem: What to do with her vast art collection when she dies? Her palazzo on the Grand Canal is filled with Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist treasures. Museums in New York and London have clamored for it but she wanted to keep it in Venice. Then she hit upon an ingenious solution. Why not New York's Guggenheim Museum? So, title to Peggy's 263 prime works, valued at up to $12 million, will be given to the Guggenheim-on the condition that they...
...industrial manufacturer, is responsible for a number of already proved systems for accomplishing this aim. One of them, called a rotary parking tower, has been installed as an integral part of several Tokyo office buildings. It works on the same principle as a Ferris wheel: cars are parked on gondola-like platforms that are rotated up and around by a single attendant. When a driver calls for his car, the attendant pushes a console button and the wheel brings platform and car down to ground level. Costing about $4,000 per space, the system is economical at its usual...
...Military roadblocks and the spot checking of cars for smuggled ammunition create massive traffic tie-ups; and on walls throughout the city, government posters depict Ojukwu's demonic countenance being crushed by the boot of a soldier. Otherwise, life in Lagos maintains its prewar rhythms. On Saturday evenings, the Gondola and Cabin Bamboo dance halls still swing, and weekend picnickers jam the gleaming bay-front beaches, splashing in the surf and munching smoked stockfish...
Howard Bay's sets capture the gondola-and-moonlight atmosphere of Venice while avoiding the stereotyped gondolas-and-moonlight. The scenery is unusually attractive in its own right, particularly one shell-like backdrop--and yet it suggests the absurd opulence and greed which the play satirizes...