Word: pyramids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tawes ordered the arrest of Gloria and three of her lieutenants. With that, a young Negro demanded to know why Wallace supporters had not been arrested. Angered, Tawes ordered the Guardsmen: "Get that man." The Negroes piled themselves in a human pyramid to hide the offender, and the Guardsmen rushed to dig him out. Rocks flew. Shouted Tawes: "Give...
...greatest construction project in the history of Egypt-a nation whose ancient pyramid builders had given the art of grand construction to the world. But the Great Pyramid of Khufu* at Giza was dedicated to the sterile memory of a dead man. As Khrushchev said as he rubbernecked through Cairo last week: "Artistic standards are higher now." So are pragmatic goals...
...Askanase, 55, smoked only corncobs down on the farm, but traded up to $25 Corsican briars as a Brooklyn department store executive. By 1945, he had saved enough to buy Houston's Columbia Dry Goods store, and soon after he led a group in buying Ohio's Pyramid Rubber Co., whose "Evenflo" nipples and baby bottles have become the nation's biggest sellers. Pyramiding that company, Askanase built up other industrial holdings and, in 1962, merged with Dunhill, a separate U.S. company that has a long-term marketing agreement with London's original Alfred Dunhill...
...Pyramids in the Flatness. As with the rural regions of Texas, each major Texas city has a character of its own, alike only in that the skyline of each seems to loom as an irregular pyramid in a desert of flatness. Houston is a lightly governed city that has outstripped all of its rivals partly because of its strategic location, partly because its people are free, unselfconscious, build for the pure pleasure of doing big things. Dallas, honestly but rigidly ruled by a business oligarchy, has been fretting about its image since long before Nov. 22. It quarrels with nearby...
Combining a number of vector equilibriums creates a complex of alternating squares and triangles. Dividing the squares once again, he found he had a symmetrical, twenty-sided globe-shaped skin which could be constructed out of tetrahedrons-the triangle-sided pyramid shape that provides the greatest strength for the least volume (or weight). In a sphere made of such interlocked tetrahedrons, the weight load applied to any point was transmitted widely throughout the structure, producing a phenomenal strength-to-weight ratio. Bucky produced his dome by cutting a hollow sphere in half...