Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors at Prince Leopold Hospital complained about the aim of some of the U.N.'s gun crews. For ten hours one night, mortar shells blasted the hospital walls and roof; patients crawled screaming into the corridors; one African woman in the process of giving birth rose in terror and fled before her delivery, was not seen again. A U.N. spokesman admitted the firing, said the rounds were aimed at a Katangese army camp 800 yds. beyond the hospital. But some of the shells even hit a Roman Catholic cathedral in an African residential section, and others exploded near...
Through the Roof. By early 1962, Labor Department experts predict, the unemployment rate may well slide below 5%. A major factor in creating more jobs should be the new vigor displayed by the construction business, which now accounts for one-ninth of the gross national product. Spending on new construction of all kinds has risen more than 40% from the recession's depths last February, is expected to hit $57 billion this year and $60 billion next year...
...play before dropping behind 72-70 to a strong Williams squad. Wednesday, against the University of Connecticut, the Crimson held a one point advantage mid-way through the second period before starting to fade. Even so, with four minutes left, Connecticut only led by four points. Then the roof fell...
...leaned two poles together and threw a skin over them had a rudimentary version of it. The real test of an A-frame is living in it. Its sloping walls make the interior resemble a giant attic. The sleeping loft, fitted with mattresses or cots, is tucked under the roof and is reached by a ladder. But for the adaptable family or unfettered weekend group, a well-planned, well-finished A-frame can be a marvel of fun and utility...
Married. Ben Gazzara, 31, taut, talented star of Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hollywood's Anatomy of a Murder; and Janice Rule, 30, ex-Copacabana chorine who won overnight fame in Broadway's Picnic; he for the second time, she for the third; in San Francisco...