Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortress of Mystery. In what was hailed as a landmark event in giving back to Pennsylvania Avenue its role as "the axis of the nation," drawings were completed for a new $60 million FBI building, the first major federal building to go up on the avenue in a quarter of a century. The monumental structure, designed by Chicago's C. F. Murphy Assocs., will stand at the corner of the proposed new "Market Square," to occupy one side of Pennsylvania Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets. The imposing facade will rise the maximum 160 ft. permitted above Pennsylvania Avenue...
...activity (EVA) gear, seals himself in the lifeboat and vents carbon dioxide and excess oxygen from his EVA suit to power the craft's attitude-control system. Face pressed against the porthole, he aligns his lifeboat with the horizon by firing the attitude-control jets. After sighting a landmark on earth with the reticle marked on the porthole, he aims and fires the retrorocket for 100 seconds, thus braking the lifeboat to a de-orbiting speed of 16,500 m.p.h. Then the retrorocket is jettisoned...
Vanishing Pygmies. The deal is a notable landmark in the gradual transformation of the tradition-bound house building industry. Last year, amid housing's worst slump since World War II, one out of five home builders went out of business. As small firms vanish, giant combines rich enough to build on a huge scale are taking over. Big corporations such as ITT are increasingly joining forces with builders-often by merger, sometimes through joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents...
...landmark case Seeger decision of 1964, the Supreme Court broadened its definition of conscientious objection by including those who could demonstrate "a sincere and meaningful belief which occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by the God of those admittedly qualifying for the exemption...
...scientists, working for the first time with grants from a laggard Federal Government, are thinking of more down-to-earth solutions. Garbage has been used for years to create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...