Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof, Tennessee Williams' savage dissection of a tormented Southern family, which has as its hero an implicit homosexual. (Article III, Section 6: "Sex perversion or any inference of it is forbidden...
...buildings as wide as 120 ft. could be put up without frames or trusses. To demonstrate the strength of his first frameless building he hung tractors weighing 40 tons from the ceiling. (In 1955 one of the buildings survived an atomic bomb test in Nevada with only a dented roof, while two rival types were blasted to bits...
...Murrow went on: "One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate...
...Aluminum roof sheets, made by Alcoa, which need no replacing, help keep the house cool. The aluminum roof, laid over plywood sheathing, is highly resistant to hurricane winds, and strong enough to support a 50ft. deep load of dry snow...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, who snapped to dramatic attention as Gooper in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays a reserve officer, retreaded for the Korean war, involved in a bitter tangle with a martinet colonel...