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...officer quarters for 39, lounges, 28 laundries, rows of freezers, snack rooms, playrooms and hobby rooms. A network of tunnels connects the Hodge and other buildings, including a schoolhouse with a capacity of 200 pupils. Beyond all this is an assortment of service shops, a boat shop, telephone exchange, gymnasium, fire station, warehouses, steel docks-and a $5,500,000 power plant with enough juice (6,500 kw.) to supply a town of at least 2,000 people. The place was designed to accommodate 1,700 residents. In a real emergency it could put up 32,000. Present population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Elegant White Elephant | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...hardly the sort of setting or audience usually associated with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. While the orchestra sat in the center of a large gymnasium, the listeners squatted or sprawled on the bare floor. Occasionally they waved their hands in imitation of the conductor, sang along with the music or uninhibitedly ran their fingers across the strings of a cello. They were young children, attending last week's Tiny Tot Concert, an annual series sponsored by Rich's department store in Atlanta. Rich's does not expect the children to be customers for quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Culture, Inc. | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Ralph B. Gates, director of Buildings and Grounds, said that the accident suffered by Radcliffe freshman Carmen E. Irizarry-Ramirez, while she was taking her fire rope test in the Radcliffe gymnasium during Orientation Week this year, had "some bearing" on the decision to replace the ropes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progress Snips Radcliffe Fire Ropes | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

Miss Irizarry-Ramirez suffered a broken vertebra when the rope which she was descending snapped and she fell nearly nine feet to the floor of the gymnasium. Miss Irizarry-Ramirez is out of the hospital and has been atending classes regularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progress Snips Radcliffe Fire Ropes | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

...autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back to a firehouse, borrowed a ladder, climbed up two stories, smashed a window with his elbow, crawled inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: The Rev. Mayor of Dijon | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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