Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a quarry near Kennedy's Cape Cod summer home more than 150 years ago and recently collected from farmyard walls and abandoned foundations in that area, pave the site. On a low semicircular wall are inscribed seven quotations, all from the inaugural address. The black marble slab marking the President's grave bears only a simple inscription...
After the ceremony, five bouquets were placed on the slab, including Jackie's lilies of the valley...
...years, nobody has built anything quite like Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the world's largest privately owned business-and-entertainment center. With its labyrinth of underground shopping arcades, sunken plaza, theaters, television studios, 25 restaurants, 70 retail stores and 50,000 daytime inhabitants of 16 slab-sided office buildings, it remains the quintessence of skyscraper civilization. Last week a combine including two Rockefeller brothers -President David of New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank and Governor Winthrop of Arkansas-brought forth plans to build a similar, if smaller, office-hotel-and-cultural complex a continent away, close...
...Eight." A flight of wooden stairs covered in gold-colored carpet, entitled Euclid by Joe Goode. A creation called Die by Architect-turned-Sculptor Tony Smith, which he admits he ordered by phone. And why not? It is only a six-by-six-by-six-foot cube in slab metal-a piece of art on which the artist has not laid a hand...
With his Columbia dams thus nicely paying for themselves, Bennett plunged ahead on the northern Peace. The Peace dam is a great earthen slab that will rise higher than the Grand Coulee, 2,700 ft. wide at the base and stretching 1.3 miles across the valley. Engineers devised a mammoth conveyor belt that, moving at 121 m.p.h., delivers 12,000 tons of fill an hour from a moraine four miles away. When the dam is topped off, it will back up a lake stretching for 240 miles...