Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...
...them as they scuttled 100 ft. across the roof, and then slid 40 ft. down an outside drainpipe that was bathed by searchlights. Finally, they scaled a 15-ft. control fence topped with barbed wire, worked their way to the northeast corner of the island to the water's edge...
Change was coming to the city, too, as Cambridge approved plans for a subway line from Boston out to Harvard Square. Eight minutes to Park Street was the goal, and plans that described the subway's "shelter" referred only to the roof-structure above ground that would protect passengers from Cambridge rain...
...characteristic is simplicity. The ten pale grey, angled walls visible from the entrance are bare except for a simply inscribed rectangular Tablet of the Word on each of them. No windows can be seen, but the entire nave-from the dark marble floor to the fanlike tracery of the roof-is drenched with a multicolored light that draws the eye toward the altar and the huge Graham Sutherland tapestry (in color, opposite) that covers the north wall behind it. From the altar, the source of light is suddenly, almost theatrically apparent: ten narrow stained-glass windows, 70 ft. high...
...plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem. But it was not a real test. All Mechem wanted was bourbon and water...