Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeep crashed through the Gallieni's doors, the commission's members, along with two Communist Viet Minh liaison officers, retreated to the roof, blocking the stairs with beds and desks. The rioters assaulted the barricade, but fell back before police-thrown tear bombs...
...Roof, will be fixed up by Studio Boss Dore Schary. Schary's fix: the relationship of the younger brother to a homosexual football captain will be changed to simple hero worship...
Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...
...Hard Sell. In Waco, Texas, less than two weeks after the Clifton-Simpson, Inc. furniture store advertised a "Sink or Sell'' sale, a two-inch downpour caved in the roof, did some $50,000 damage...
...turn stock in a new company: the Hotel Corporation of America. The new company will gross an estimated $52 million annually: $22 million from the hotels, $15 million from the restaurants and $15 million from two food companies now owned by Childs. By putting all companies under one corporate roof, Sonnabend will make a fat tax saving. He will be able to de duct Childs' losses from the hotels' profits (1954: about $2,000,000), thereby add a king-sized fillip to his earnings...