Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest electoral deadlock, impatient Italians recalled the 13th century papal conclave at Viterbo that lasted for 31 years without naming a new Pope. In that long-ago time, the citizens of Viterbo finally locked the cardinals inside a palace, and when that failed, they tore off the roof to let in rain and cold. That did it, and the cardinals elected Gregory...
Imperial Japan's ancient ideal was one family under one roof. Today's typical Japanese family still lives that way-but often the roof covers only a single room. More than three-fourths of Tokyo's private rental units are one-room warrens, and both the financial and the human costs are fearful. Almost once a week a Tokyo infant smothers to death in an overcrowded communal bed. A taxi driver recently nabbed by police for making love to his wife in the public plaza of the Imperial Palace was given a sympathetic release when he pleaded...
Dogs on the Roof. Straus is fond of saying that "Macy's operates like a family"-and the store is certainly an informal, self-contained community. Among its 11,000 full-time employees are 4,828 modestly paid ($84.84 a week) salespeople, including 1,400 who can interpret in 42 languages, and 150 telephone operators who write 1,000,000 orders a year. Macy's also has a private police force big enough to protect a city the size of Des Moines; it is captained by an ex-FBI agent, who presides over an array of secret photoelectric...
...Sliding Roof. Most studios look like collections of local airport hangars. Universal City is full of ivy-covered cottages and real grass. Visitors can go through Doris Day's dressing room and peek into her closet, which contains everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building...
...what may be an ultimate even in Hollywood home projection facilities, Wasserman's movie-screening room is actually a separate building-with a sliding aluminum roof and enough couch-side buttons to thrill General Sarnoff-one for controlling stereo, others for tape machines, radio, and the movie sound-track volume. As he sits in this room and judges all he has done in the past few years, he has a great deal more in mind than the simple Hollywood formula: "If it makes money, it's good...