Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
...democratic center. Strong enough to gain from dissension, patient enough to wait for chaos, the Communists are still neither able nor willing to take power legally. The far right is imposing enough to harass, but too weak to be a threat. Only the Christian Democrats have the chance to patch together a parliamentary majority...
...girl is pretty Rose Martin, a blue-eyed brunette who comes from a coal patch in western Pennsylvania. The Main...
...poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. "If you'll pick the leftover cotton in that patch," he was told, "I'll give you a year's subscription to the Progressive Farmer." It did not seem much of an offer to a spirited, twelve-year-old North Carolina farm boy. The Progressive Farmer was a struggling, eight-page weekly with only about 5,000 readers. But it changed Poe's life. He got the subscription, and became so interested in the Farmer that...
Three minutes later, the four jets rammed at 480 m.p.h. into a rain-soaked patch of woods 25 miles northeast of Atlanta, 2½ minutes' flying time from the field. They crashed within a 100-yd. circle, wreckage overlapped. The four bodies were thrown for half a mile into a bramble patch beyond the woods...