Word: interior
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...gradually drove attendance down. It fell from 5 million a year in 1967 to less than 2 million a decade later. By 1978 Rockefeller Center, the Music Hall's owner, planned to close it for good. That prompted a nationwide outcry that led New York City to designate the interior a landmark that had to be preserved. After a $2.5 million renovation that restored the original appearance of everything from the 24-karat gold-leaf ceiling to the murals in the bathrooms, the Music Hall reopened...
...astonishment (and entertainment) of much of official Washington, the little-known Secretary of the Interior last week fired Iacocca as chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission. The 43-member group, which includes such assorted luminaries as former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bob Hope, was created in 1982 to give the Interior Department advice on how to restore Miss Liberty along with nearby Ellis Island, where as many as 16 million immigrants entered America between 1892 and 1924 (among them: Iacocca's parents). What former Interior Secretary James Watt had done for the Beach Boys...
...French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe set his jaw and adopted a determined tone. "The terrorists wanted to unsettle public opinion, and they have succeeded," he said. "But they also hope to intimidate the government, and there they will not succeed." Even as Joxe spoke, Paris was a city nearly under siege. A small army of police guarded transportation outlets and other key points. The tightened security was in response to a wave of bombings that had given the French capital a bad case of the jitters. A total of 21 people were injured, eight seriously, in three explosions that rocked...
...J.P.L. experts interpret the tape as showing a bright sphere of flame appearing well above one of the boosters' lower skirts. It is on the interior side, facing the external tank and pointing away from the orbiter. A fraction of a second later, the sphere of flame becomes a cone-shaped jet of fire. The pointed end of the cone emerges from the booster, and its rounded end seems to aim at the fuel tank, apparently burning a hole in its side. The next thing to be seen is the huge fireball, engulfing everything...
Indeed, a near burnthrough at a different site on a booster occurred on an earlier Challenger flight, during the summer of 1983. In that case, the insulating material on the interior of the nozzle's throat was scorched away to within half an inch of the nozzle's outer skin...