Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall. Some critics prized this set-out look of the dome for the "cascade" effect it gave to a viewer standing close and looking sharply up. Classicists, however objected that the style varied too much from Old World models, whose domes are, set well back so that walls and roof can buttress them against the tendency of masonry to thrust out at the bottom...
...roof fell in on the Yard's oldest unreconditioned building early yesterday morning, as part of the ceiling in a room in Weld Hall collapsed around an inhabitant...
...From the roof of Jerusalem's big, new community center building, green-capped security police peer down from behind machine-gun muzzles. Steel fences nine feet high keep passers-by away, and giant searchlights go on at night, bathing the neighborhood in glaring light. At the main entrance, guards shunt visitors through twelve cubicles for personal frisking. Upstairs, four stories above all his protectors and behind three barred doors, sits sallow Adolf Eichmann...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded...
Buick introduced its Skylark, a flashy coupe with a more powerful engine, chrome-trimmed fenders, and an optional cloth-covered white roof. Pontiac showed off its Le Mans five-passenger coupe, a sleeker version of the standard four-cylinder Tempest with a four-speed gearbox and wire wheels. Ford introduced its new Futura (TIME, March 24) and Comet S-22. Chrysler showed off its experimental Turboflite; it has a rakish body by Ghia, a gas turbine engine only half as heavy as a regular V8, and an aft flap that acts as an air brake...