Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety record, Kennedy pointed out that astronauts and test pilots undergo much greater shocks than do people in many auto accidents-and survive. He asked the Government to force automakers to do something about protecting passengers from the "second collision" when they slam into a car's interior. "Our automobiles," he said, "are simply not designed to protect the passengers under these shocks." When military commanders want money to improve safety at airbases, added Kennedy, "they place the boots of dead pilots on the conference table before them. The boots of millions of traffic victims-past and future...
...army-for fear that they would turn their weapons on him instead. What with West Africa's current epidemic of military coups (five since December), Sekou has not even seen fit to take his 3,000-man regular army away from its current assignment: building roads in the interior...
Choked Baritone. Built in 1883 at a cost of $1.7 million, the six-story, soot-encrusted exterior of the old house resembles a National Guard armory; the gilt and crimson interior has become a tawdry relic of bygone splendor. The grimy walls are veined with ominous cracks, the plaster is flaking, the gold leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated...
...judges simultaneously turned down an Interior Department plea that the site be reserved for federal development and rebuked Secretary Stewart L. Udall for "his long delay" in entering the case. Said the court: "The Secretary of the Interior was more than once specifically invited to participate in the proceedings, but for about two years he did nothing." The court swept aside Udall's contention that the FPC had no right to allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That...
Redesigning the interior of Lehman Hall -- originally built as an administrative building -- has produced many of the planning delays...