Word: mosaical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task was to fit the results into the intricate mosaic of U.S. political life, to consider the outcome of individual races and find whether they produced cohesive national patterns. The strong Republican gains across the country almost immediately indicated a cover story on the most interesting G.O.P. winners. Early Wednesday morning, the editors in New York chose the six cover subjects and asked for detailed reportage and analysis from correspondents in the field, particularly in Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Chicago. In every case, the correspondents involved had been closely following the race in their area...
Great U.S. constitutional decisions come down from the Supreme Court like Mosaic tablets-but the common law and administrative rules that affect everyone are created by hundreds of lesser courts and agencies in thousands of obscure human conflicts. A current sampler...
Died. Barry Faulkner, 85, muralist, whose massive works decorate statehouses and office buildings across the country, most notably The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution in the exhibition hall of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and Intelligence Awakening Mankind, a 79-ft. by 14-ft. mosaic in Manhattan's RCA building; in Keene...
...doves, no Northerners or Southerners-only guests at a solemn ceremony. No TV or radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under the gaze of a huge mosaic of a stern Christ in red robes, and vowed to each other: With this ring I marry you and pledge to you my ever faithful love...
What Stone produced might well make an old Mogul emperor rub his eyes in astonishment. Against the background of the blue Murree hills, Stone set the swimming-pool reactor beneath a mosquelike dome embellished with gold mosaic designs, juxtaposed it with a minaret-like exhaust tower. Enclosing the reactor complex is a great quadrangle housing laboratories and offices. In its final phase, the great quadrangle surrounding the reactor will measure 800 ft. by 600 ft., become the nucleus for what Stone likes to think of as "the M.I.T. of Pakistan...