Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles' new jet airport terminal...
...third building will house a two-level restaurant; the spacious second- story mall will contain a skating rink and outdoor swimming pool, with a bowling alley and parking for 3,000 cars underneath. In cold-weather months, the rink and pool will be covered by a blue-tinted plastic roof held up by air pressure...
Married. Jean Simmons, 31, hazel-eyed, London-born cinemactress (Sparta-cus); and Screenwriter-Director (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Richard Brooks, 48, ex-professional baseball player; after they first teamed together in Elmer Gantry; both for the second time; in Salinas, Calif...
Detecting such a test is not impossible either, given the right instruments. On a roof at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, six wide-angle lenses stare day and night at the sky. Each is linked to a filter that makes it blind to all light except a special kind that comes from the fluorescence of nitrogen or oxygen. If light of this unusual sort comes down from the sky, the rooftop apparatus at Los Alamos will ring an alarm that will sound around the world. It will mean that some nation has attempted a secret bomb test in space...
Thus the Crimson's gallant bid to retain its title in the face of prohibitive odds fell short. Coach Bruce Monro's varsity began to fly danger signals in its 7-3 win over Columbia, and it seemed that the roof fell in as the Crimson bowed to Dartmouth, 5 to 3. Still, a triumph Saturday would have kept the Crimson hopes alive, and it almost materialized...