Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked up to see the mushroom cloud," said Hotelman Paul Ryan. Instead he saw a 300-ft. pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were...
...rated today as among the alltime greats of U.S. architecture. Among them: "Falling Water," in Bear Run, Pa., Wright's first reinforced-concrete house, in which he flung cantilevered floors dramatically out over the waterfall; the S.C. Johnson & Son Co.'s Racine, Wis. wax factory, with soaring mushroom columns in the work space and a 16-story laboratory tower completely sheathed in glass tubing...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration approved models of one-ton mushroom-shaped satellite capsules designed to fly men into space in the early 1960s. The model satellites survived preliminary tests of rocket shots into the atmosphere, drops from high-altitude aircraft, wind-tunnel speeds of 10,000 m.p.h., and justified what NASA termed "significant progress" toward "a safe and reliable, manned satellite capsule...
Absolutes. Last week's program featured the works of European composers. Italian Composer Luciano Berio's Homage to Joyce consisted of unintelligible recitations of the final pages of Ulysses. Also included were such numbers as the airy Suite in the Form of a Mushroom; Untitled, an explosive collection of train noises; and Dialogue for Man and Machine, which, in addition to the whoo-whoo effect and the obscure philosophizing about matchwood, contains this mysterious admonition...
Died. Valentina Pavlovna Guercken Wasson, 57, Russian-born Manhattan pediatrician who, with her husband, stood in the absolute front rank of amateur experts on the mushroom; of cancer; in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Wasson (a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.) traveled around the world in pursuit of exotic mushrooms, published in 1957 the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History. Probably the most recondite work on mycology ever printed, it was limited to 512 copies, sold for $125, now brings...