Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard was fired up in the second half, and overtook the Ithacans with 9:30 to play. With 3:30 left, Keith Sedlacek's jumper put Harvard in front, 72 to 70. Then the roof fell...
...Union Tank Car Co. in Baton Rouge is the length of a football field. Next year the Union of South Africa expects to be using geodesic huts for low-cost housing. And within a decade it is quite possible, if Bucky has his way, that cities will roof their centers over with vast translucent domes, beneath which mass air conditioning and weatherproofing will enable houses and stores to be constructed only for privacy and aesthetic delight. Bucky has already proposed one to cover Manhattan from river to river and from 22nd St. to 62nd St. which would soar nearly three...
...rise in his personal income, which climbed 5% to $463 billion. He scattered his money in every direction. Typical of the mood was the budget year of Mrs. Flora Binder, a Sherman Oaks, Calif., housewife; in her household, it seemed a good year to put on a new roof, to apply a new coat of paint to the house, to buy a garbage-disposal unit, to refurnish the living room and to replace the TV set with a newer model. Consumers have become so casual about outlays that used to call for a family council that Miss Sadie Zlotkin...
...Great Western Savings & Loan Association's new branch building in Gardena, Calif., is thunderously massive without being forbidding. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is all roof and piers. A great flat slab 112 ft. square floats 20 ft. above the glassed-in banking space; supporting it are eight gigantic piers, like upended paving blocks...
...that time something ugly and un inspired would be sitting there. So they drew up plans for something attractive and imaginative: a red brick snailshell. Customers enter where a snail would, find tellers ranged behind a curved counter inside the shell. Daylight comes through a plastic dome in the roof. The little building has caused much comment ("Entering it along that sloping pathway," says a woman depositor, "is like being sucked into a hair drier"), and many Bostonians will be sorry to see it torn down...