Word: grid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design is an interlocking grid of student suites known as the elevator "skip-stop" plan. It has previously been used in some apartment houses, but it is a new idea in dormitory planning...
...Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
...painting flat on the surface. "When one does not represent things, a place remains for the Divine," he jotted in his notebook. He later simplified his palette to primary red, blue and yellow, then, working with charcoal, ruler and strips of paper, bound and balanced the areas with a grid of black lines that became his trademark...
...their judgment of Sonali's misbehavior, many Indians could find less than no excuse for it.* Sonali sneaked out of the hotel once during the week to see a movie. The film: Anastasia, starring Oscar-winning Cinemactress In grid Bergman Rossellini. Ingrid, in Paris, kept determinedly calm about the Indian uproar. Roberto, however, came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed...
...Third prize ($750) to Rumanian-born Hedda Sterne, 41, for her luminous, evocative New York, shown in last summer's Venice Biennale. Wife of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, Hedda Sterne takes as her starting point the grid of city streets, blends them with Manhattan's neon lights, ends up with an abstraction she calls "synthetic: nothing is absent and yet it is not a reproduction...