Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epidemic of missile fever. In nearby Cocoa Beach, and in towns up and down the coast, missilemen and their families have infected the whole populace with the fever. In motels, bars and restaurants, the prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses; and no sooner does a contractor develop a new weapon than a new motel (e.g., Polaris, Vanguard) of the same name springs up in the scrub...
...countdown had begun. On the roof of a building near the launching sites, 50 newsmen trained eyes and cameras on Jupiter-C, only a mile and a half away. Nerves tingled as each heart-leaping minute of the countdown squawked over an intercom box. At 9:42 a mournful warning horn sounded from the launching area. Two red warning lights blinked steadily. The white rocket fumed and smoked, growing whiter and colder under the pebbled casing of ice caused by the subfreezing liquid oxygen. The service structure moved away on its tracks...
...never arrived. Instead he headed for his own six-story apartment house, climbed to the roof and, without leaving a word of explanation behind him, plunged to his death...
...international museum fraternity: how to light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert...
Rich & Bright. First the old palace roof was torn off and a three-tiered system installed in its place. At the top is a glass covering (cooled by water jets in summer). Beneath are set a series of aluminum louvers automatically regulated by a photoelectric mechanism that opens them to the sky on cloudy days or at dusk, gradually closes them as the sun brightens. (This system is similar to that of the superbly lit Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.-TIME, May 7, 1956.) The natural light is next deflected by a synthetic-wood barrier...