Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otherwise you will take sixteen weeks of basic probably in infantry (Fort Dix, N.J. or Fort Jackson, S.C.), Armor (Fort Knox, Ky, or Fort Hood, Tex.), or Field Artillery (Fort Dix. N.J. or Fort Sill, Okla.). The choice is made by officers whom you will never see and on the basis of mere caprice, so there is no way of influencing your branch of service...
When John D. Rockefeller Jr. was ready to build Rockefeller Center, Harrison had definitely enlisted in the camp of modern architecture and was ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed the starkly simple Daily News Building and the equally simple-if startlingly pea-green-McGraw-Hill Building. Harrison and his partner Corbett were among the architects chosen by the Rockefellers to work on the designs for the most ambitious project of the century...
...designs had taken 18 months to finish. Architect Ray Hood had wanted the R.C.A. Building to look like a slab, but with staggered setbacks; Harrison battled for a single, uninterrupted cliff of stone. Harrison found himself alone and had to give in. That was not the only fight. The managerial firm of Todd, Robertson & Todd that Rockefeller had put over the architects wanted the whole group of buildings wrapped in Byzantine or Romanesque trim. The argument got hot; so did Harrison. Finally, he exploded out of his chair and sent it spinning. "Damn it!" he shouted, "you people just...
...Story of Robin Hood. Robust version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...
...Story of Robin Hood. Robust version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...