Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe bachelor glass house in Connecticut, the kind of place beloved by House Beautiful. But in designing for Yale a new science complex on Pierson-Sage Square, Johnson surprised everyone by designing a turreted architecture of burnt umber brick and purplish Longmeadow stone that reflects the sullen soil of the area. So far he has finished the $3,500,000 Kline Geology Laboratory, a medieval keep whose slit windows admit daylight willy-nilly-and which one Yale Corporation member dryly describes as "solid as rock and functional as an electric log." Its fortresslike appearance will be repeated...
...Bonn, the Kennedy Administration promised in September that it would not withdraw any troops "without consultation." The furor in Bonn last week forced President Kennedy to repeat, somewhat wearily, that the six NATO divisions plus the six additional regiments that are not committed to NATO would remain on German soil...
...spending will be reduced proportionately if combat troops are removed from German soil...
...plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...
...Harvard Radio Astronomy Station was originally conceived strictly as a solar research project, but it is now branching out to study some of the other radio sources. A new $1,000,000 instrument, financed by the Air Force, now rises over 100 feet above the rocky soil of Cook Flat, dwarfing the solar equipment...