Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the unions try to observe the old fraternal forms. Members still call one another "brother" and "sister" -but mostly in formal correspondence, not in face-to-face conversation. The interior walls of many a meeting hall in many a fancy local headquarters are of unadorned cinder blocks to recall unionism's hard-knocks days; chances are that more money has been put into the locals' recreation rooms, with air conditioning, paneled walls, billiard and ping-pong tables and bars (the staple still is beer...
...parks and monuments were dedicated and several Presidents took a lively interest in natural beauty, but it was not until President Kennedy took office that the Federal Government again began thinking about conservation on a scale approaching Teddy Roosevelt's. J.F.K. brought in outdoorsy Stewart Udall as Interior Secretary, in 1962 called the first White House Conference on conservation since the T.R. years...
Ramiro Valdés, Castro's Minister of Interior, suggested as much in a brief radio speech last week. "We must fight," he told Cubans, "against internal espionage, sabotage, acts of terrorism and attempted assassinations." A few weeks ago, according to one report, saboteurs put the torch to two Cuban PT boats in Santiago harbor. Another report tells of a Cuban antiaircraft battery that gunned down a Cuban army transport in the belief that Castro was aboard...
This belief changed man's walls. In fact, at first Le Corbusier eliminated walls. His Domino house schema used floors like open terraces connected by cantilevered stairs and supported by interior columns. No longer load-bearing, walls could become curtains of glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building...
...York City, sweating out the most serious water shortage in a century, was chided by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall last week for being "obviously laggard" in meeting the crisis. With all its reservoirs on the rocks, it was clearly too late to rush out and build new ones; in any case, there was no prospect of rain to fill them. Instead, the city reacted with a characteristic blend of hoopla, voodoo and Micawberism...