Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Pool. One day last week, the roof fell in on Russ again. Kathy died. Russ had apparently thought she was well able to swim a few hours earlier...
...than tee up a golf ball and whap it down a fairway. For indoor escape from tension, he likes a few rubbers of bridge. In the White House, Saturday night is usually bridge night. The evening begins about 5 o'clock, in the solarium on the White House roof, is interrupted for a snack or buffet supper, then may continue down in Ike's second-floor study until 10 or 10:30. Guests arriving for a bridge date are likely to find the host waiting for them at the card table, impatiently riffling the decks...
...small town of Bazainville near Paris, seeking, he explained, a house and grounds suitable for his aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...
Next day the Crimson trumpeted the news. In a straight-faced story, it solemnly reported that its old campus rival, the Lampoon, had given the Russians its ibis, the sacred bird that has stood on the Lampoon roof for 43 years-off & on. But as everyone knew, it was all a hoax, perpetrated by the Crimson itself. Cried one Lampoon staffer, as he entered negotiations to get his bird back: "The Crimson men have no imagination. This was just addleheaded vandalism...
...large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have a flattish, gently undulating roof, and a square, 197-foot tower topped with a slim cross. Inside, Architect Gsaenger plans to erect movable steel and glass partitions, separating the church proper from an adjoining community center seating...