Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laboratory will bring under one roof Harvard's large research program in geochemistry and geophysics, providing offices, workships, and laboratory space for senior Harvard geologists and some graduate students and postdoctoral students working in the accelerating field of experimental geology...
Beneath the crystal chandeliers at the St. Regis Roof, an ornate auditorium that tops Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel like a tiara, sat a glistening segment of New York's feminine society. The girls had gathered for the usual ritual: a fashion show (this one a benefit in memory of Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who died in a plane crash last year). As usual, the crowd vied in splendor with the mannequins displaying the new summer modes. Mmes. William Woodward, George F. Baker, Frederick Gushing and John R. Fell turned out with their fanciest friends, some sporting...
...fashion editor since 1937, stayed away because covering fashion shows is no longer her job. That privilege now belongs to Catherine di Montezemolo, a marquesa who left Vogue's corral of fashion writers last month to succeed Wilhela on the Journal. Cathie did not show at the roof either; she had seen all these summertime fineries before...
...gives one a little sense of mortality." With help from on high, a cathedral under construction in Britain got a finishing touch. At Coventry Cathedral, a twin-rotor helicopter picked up a two-ton, Soft, spire, flew the length of the church's copper-covered concrete roof, hovered dead on target while builders bolted the spire into place. Supplier of the helicopter: the Royal Air Force, whose outnumbered pilots had to watch helplessly one night 22 years ago when 500 Luftwaffe bombers hit Coventry in the war's worst raid on Britain and reduced the 600-year...
Last week, in the wing that he built for Berlin's Charlottenburg Castle, the surviving paintings of Frederick's French collection hung under the same roof for the first time (see color). Originally, these paintings were scattered not only through Charlottenburg but also through the old Berlin Castle and the three castles in Potsdam-the New Palace, the Potsdam Castle and Frederick's beloved Sans Souci (Without Care). In later life, Frederick bought Italian and Flemish masterpieces, but in his youth he was probably history's greatest Francophile...