Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contemporary events need contemporary men," says Arizona's Der Alte. "Time makes specialists of us all. In building a house, there is a moment for the foundation, a moment for the walls, a moment for the roof." He reasons that he has supervised the construction of Arizona's basic road, water and power facilities through federal projects. Thus the state can do without the seniority that made him president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and one of the upper chamber's most influential...
...list price of $2,160, the Cubicar's main drawback seems to be that its roof and four walls are glass, allowing the squares of the world to see in as easily as the riders of the cube can see out. But then, explains the car's designer, a Vietnamese Parisian named Quasar (after the far-out starlike bodies) Khanh (TIME, Oct. 27), "Transparency is part of the modern world...
...Trumpeter Morgan's first big hit was The Sidewinder, a snaky, funky groove running straight to bedrock. Now he is back with more constructions on the same foundation. His confident phraseology in the Beatles' hit Yesterday and in Sunrise Sunset from the Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof is set against brief but velvety arrangements by Oliver Nelson. His finest flights, however, are in his own compositions, Zambia and Nite Flite, while his perking Latin treatment of Ca-Lee-So is spiciest...
...those years would have been a pleasant nostalgic blur," he said, had he not gone back to China in 1948, the year before he entered Yale. "I went ostensibly to attend the University of Nanking, but that fall the roof fell...
Sophomore Larry Terrell jumped to an 8-6, 4-1 lead at number six singles before the roof caved in. Terrell eventually lost...