Word: passageway
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Rehabilitation of the Union is also planned. The second floor passageway from the Mirror Room to the Varsity Club will be blocked off and the Mirror Room redone into a small dining room. All the third floor rooms will undergo a face-lifting...
...moving sculpture of a black mother and child. Because of it he is surreptitiously taken to a white man's home-an action forbidden by law -and given a drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy and even love, but hurriedly offered in the passageway lest they all sbe discovered. Almost more than any recent writing about South Africa, the story gives a glimpse of the fundamental decency that Paton insists is there below the official layer of hate...
...scientific standards, the time differential between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is inconsequential. Spectacular as manned satellites will be, they are not an end in themselves. Says one U.S. technician: "Space is a passageway-not a destination." With orbital flight just around the corner, scientists are already looking for new places for man to go, new things to do, and new problems that might confront him when he breaks completely free from Planet Earth to seek his destiny in the uncharted, perpetual night of outer space...
...last 350 ft. were brutal. Clawing up a narrow chimney, Kamps was blocked by a huge chock stone, an 80-ft. splinter of granite that had fallen from above and plugged the passageway. With infinite care, he inched his way to the left. After an hour's work, he drove a piton into the rock, hooked a finger through the piton's eye and leaned dizzily backwards to search for a route above. Down below, the spectators stopped talking. Somehow the climbers found a way up the face, around the chock stone, and back into the chimney again...
...father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote poetry (passably), studied acting, and even performed (middling) in a few TV shows and summer-stock plays. Charming in her shyness, stammering ever so slightly...