Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
...separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged roof of the Budokan Hall. Last week teams from 96 nations were forming for the Tokyo Games, and sports buffs the world over prepared to descend on the city by sea and air. At least 20,000 of them a day will make the scene during the Games' two-week...
...scene has been well prepared. Tokyo officials feared that there would not be enough hotel space for all the visitors, so they pumped $93 million in loans into the city's hotel industry. Two new hotels-the Otani, with a revolving cocktail lounge on its roof, and the Tokyo Prince -boast 1,600 rooms between them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west...
...simplest models cost about $500, but a variety of optional extras can bring the cost of the housing unit alone to $5,500. Among them: enclosed toilet ($90), shower ($210), hot-water heater ($140), storm windows ($45), refrigerator (about $170), air conditioner (about $250). One model even has a roof that slides out and canvas panels that come down to provide additional shelter...
...Swedish import Ulla Sallert. Book and lyrics are by prolific Sidney Michaels, who adapted Tchin-Tchin. Sherlock Holmes would hardly have approved, but he and Watson become song-and-dance men in the long-postponed Baker Street, now Broadway-bound with Fritz Weaver under the deerstalker. Fiddler on the Roof is nominally based on Sholom Aleichem's moralistic tales of Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russia, with irrepressible Zero Mostel in the leading role. The season's most technically ambitious adaptation will be a Broadway version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with book and lyrics...