Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wedged between fire-snorting South Carolina and adamant Virginia, North Carolina offered a rare chance for school integration to break into the Solid South -or to blow off the roof. Last week Negro and white children began attending school together in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Charlotte (pop. 158,800) and Winston-Salem (pop. 115,800). And, thanks to careful advance planning, a strong governor and purposeful law enforcement, the roof stayed...
...needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under...
...glacier near Thule. It is 150 ft. from the top of the ice and 500 ft. back from the face, and it would make a fine warehouse, invisible from above and with built-in refrigeration. The engineers figure that much bigger chambers can be dug without danger of the roof caving in. What they do not know so far is how long their ice structures will last. Ice behaves in some ways like a very thick liquid. It flows slowly, eventually filling any open space. The engineers hope that their under-ice dwellings, roads and storerooms will remain useful...
...there were 35 in the community, with a duplicating machine and a sculpture studio set up in a barracks. The sisters set out to build a chapel, put it up in two years from excavation to roof on nothing but their own nun-power. Now a 50-room guest house is almost completed, and on the drawing board is a new 1,000-seat chapel plus auditorium...
...problem faced by Designers Walter Netsch and Gordon Bunshaft, partners of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was to provide shelter and suitable surroundings for three services-Protestant, Catholic and Jewish-under one roof, and relate the chapel to the academy's other buildings and its majestic mountain backdrop. The solution is an ingenious example of contemporary Air Force Gothic. Rising tall and bright in its sheath of man-made aluminum against the surrounding peaks of the Rockies, the chapel stands in solitary splendor, its 19 spires soaring in contrast above the flat-roofed buildings spread out on the campus...