Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these shoved his fist into the face of a Harvard marcher. But Boston police prevented a brawl from breaking out. A little while later an empty beer can was thrown from a roof; it landed near the marchers...
...Exactly what went wrong may never be known. The plane's right wing glanced off the metal roof of McDonnell's Building 101-where the Gemini 9 capsule was being readied for shipment to Cape Kennedy later in the week. The plane bounced, hit the building again, then plummeted into a parking lot, bursting into flames. Bassett was decapitated. See was hurled through the shattered fuselage and killed instantly. Stafford and Cernan, unaware of the crash, touched down safely on a runway nearby...
Looking like a gigantic porte-cochere at first glance, the four-story Arts Center serves visually as a gateway to the campus. Functionally, its elevated wing contains artists' studios; clerestories jut up above the roof line to catch the light; galleries and staircases are cantilevered out into space; practice rooms on the ground floor declare themselves by their irregular shapes, which baffle the sound. "I'm not looking for beauty," says Rudolph, "but I'm looking for what's meaningful...
...amateur conjurer. Magic must be perfect; real rabbits must emerge from the trick hat. The reader, noting that Sylvia Ashton-Warner's novel is dedicated to a river (New Zealand's Whanganui), that among the chief characters are 13 darling children, most of them under one tin roof, and that various Maori gods and spirits are freely invoked, may suspect that he is being conjured into accepting a crock of anthropological whimsy. Not so; the magic here is real...
...based businessmen who carp about constantly working under the gun ought to get a look at Fred Eaton. On the roof above his modern office in Caracas, Venezuela, booted militiamen with submachine guns patrol 24 hours a day. They are watching for Communist terrorists who, in a perverse kind of compliment, have focused on Eaton's company as a prime example of Yanqui capitalism. It is Sears, Roebuck of Venezuela, and all of its 13 stores have been the targets of bombs or burning. Though nothing has happened lately, Eaton's workers each night before closing have...