Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several rockets crashed into the barracks area, destroying three buildings. "You could hear the shrapnel hitting the roof," said an airman. "Then one landed on the barracks next to us like 60,000 garbage cans hitting the floor." When the sun rose, aircraft and barracks were still smoldering. Two big craters pocked the west runway, and the east runway was scattered with debris from wrecked aircraft. In all, eleven planes-Phantoms, Crusaders and C-130 transports-were destroyed and 31 damaged. Besides the dead, 173 people were wounded...
Energetic Ben Heineman is not turning over the whole railroad to his protege. The new president is expected to devote much of his time to organizing North Western Industries, a holding company that will place the C. & N.W.'s diversified industrial operations under the same roof with the railroad...
Kosygin agreed. He thanked the President for arranging the meeting, thanked "the masters of the house"?the Republican college president?for "a roof over our heads under which we could meet." (The roof, as Johnson found to his delight, had in earlier times sheltered such visitors as Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.) As to the business of the day, Kosygin said he had nothing to add to Johnson's statement: "I think it was very correctly drawn up." But by the time he got to his limousine, Kosygin had a postscript: "War should be a thing...
...associate professor of political science at the City University of New York, has prepared an extensive study advocating the division of New York City into five separate borough systems. Still others call for establishing educational parks, vast autonomous centers of education where whole districts would be educated under one roof. "We're all interested in decentralization," says Walter L. Hill, a tall sunburnt architect and lecturer on Education and Urban Planning at the Ed School. "It's the vogue...
...keeping a gyroscopically-controlled mirror pointed directly at Venus through a port in the plane's roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists...