Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said yesterday that a construction strike has delayed finishing the roof of the library but that the strike will probably not affect the building's mid-winter opening. He added that the official opening will come later to allow for "finishing touches" and better weather...
...Schmidt banned nonofficial visitors from government headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...
...Smithsonian. "You will never, never, never get it-unless you fulfill five conditions," Lehman once told the Met's director, Thomas Hoving. Some of the terms are still secret, but his known requirements boiled down to a demand that the works be housed forever beneath a glass roof in a new separate wing of the Metropolitan; that they should never be absorbed into the bulk of the Met's collections; and that the old masters should be hung in replicas of the rooms in the Lehman town house in New York. In 1969 Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo...
...couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments--the death is as distanced as the inaudible thud of a body falling 135 stories.) At the end, gelignite releases a flood of one million gallons of water from the water towers on top of the roof, extinguishing the fire in a tremendous rush of steam as it rushes through the burnt out central core of the building and pours off all four edges of the roof. The Tower becomes a 135-story fiery fountain of cascading water against a perfectly black background. The beauty of scenes...
...Cambridge with better acoustics than Mather House last weekend but where you should leave your coat outside in the bushes because they force you to check your cost among other annoying little rip-off like the absence of draft been made a mistake last week when some roof at WHRB told me that the long rock orgy announced last week was last week but it's not it's this week beginning with The Agony and the Ecstasy," with acts that just-missed the big time, tonight at midnight, followed immediately by the Beatles Orgy at 10 p.m. Friday...