Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plane in a Fog." This week 11,000 men and women jammed Harringay Arena for the first of Billy Graham's sessions. Some 3,000 more had to be turned away. Speaking from a sky-blue pulpit under a mammoth cube that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message...
...radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this...
...half-century mark, the need for repairs makes problems of money even more pressing. During the war an "Overseas Issue" published through the efforts of W. B. Wheelwright, President '01, garnered $3,000, most of which was earmarked for needed restoration. More serious repairs, particularly a new tiled roof, are planned. Often during Cambridge's ample rains, rivulets of water trickle down the rough, brick walls, and gathering in pools on the floor of the Great Hall, remind Blot and Jester that the Lampoon needs renovation once again...
...little North German town of Wolfsburg, about 100 miles west of Berlin, had been built by Hitler to turn out "people's cars" for the 1,000-year Third Reich. In World War II it was 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Rain slashed through the holes in its roof after V-E day while a motley crew of 8,000 refugees and former soldiers grubbed about in the ruins. Half were cleaning up rubble; the others were virtually hand-tooling a few vehicles for the British occupation army. Falling bricks were a constant menace; live wires lay tangled...
Last year Nordhoff's 20,000 employees turned out 180,000 buglike Volkswagens at the rate of one every 80 seconds, sent them beetling into the markets of 83 foreign countries. The two-door, four-passenger Volkswagen (sedan, convertible and sun roof), powered by a four-cylinder (30-h.p.), air-cooled engine in the rear, has been a fast seller in almost every market it has invaded.* Peppy (top speed: 68) and economical (32 miles to the U.S. gallon), the Volkswagen has become the postwar model T. It outsells all other cars in five European nations...