Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waited for the bus that would take me up Cambridge St. to Harvard Square, it began to snow--a sudden burst, the kind that blows fiendishly hard little snow crystals into your face no matter how deeply you hide your head in the hood of your coat...
...Oxford, 1978), these were the definitive fantasy-structures of American capital, the cathedrals of a "culture of congestion" that finds its apogee in the 1,244 blocks of Manhattan Island. No glass slab could hope to be as rich in imagery as the work of an architect like Raymond Hood (chief architect of Rockefeller Center, designer of the old McGraw-Hill Building and the Chicago Tribune Tower). This point was not lost on Johnson. Fantasy veiled as history: such is the message of A T & T. In the process, Hood is appropriated to the recipe...
...grow after showing some brief signs of improving. This year, oil and natural gas imports will swell to $45 billion, up from $42 billion last year. Cornpared with conventional gasoline, unleaded fuel is more expensive to make, costs more at the pump, and gives a lackluster performance under the hood...
...that are not retracted with the same fanfare when proved incorrect. They criticize NHTSA for yielding to pressure groups, for failing to measure costs against benefits, and for lacking enough competent staffers. Undaunted, Claybrook aims next to get the automakers to improve seat belts and to scrap their spearlike hood ornaments, which she considers dangerous...
DIED. Clifford F. Hood, 84, president of U.S. Steel from 1953 to 1959; in Palm Beach, Fla. Starting as a clerk in U.S. Steel-owned American Steel & Wire Co. in 1917, Hood served as that firm's president for twelve years (1938-49) before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...