Word: solider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Siberia: The Endless Horizon" is a study of the land that occupies more than one-tenth of the earth's solid surface...
...spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes of Fujiyama. Halfway up, the solid earth gives way to an airy, translucent blister. Made of vinyl-coated fiber glass, this roof is laced by restraining cables and is supported entirely by a cushion of compressed...
...commission insisted that houses maintain a consistent setback, and limited the heights of buildings. That sounds ordinary enough. But the solid even-block front is an honestly urban form, as well as a visually harmonious one. And these block fronts didn't become bleak. This is partly because of the plantings. But also, the buildings these Victorians built bulge with eclectic detail that interrupts the facade-plane. Oriel and bay windows bend out to gather light...
Clearly, the key to a Harvard victory lies in the effectiveness of its defense and its kicking game. With Singleterry leading the league in punting, Harvard seems fairly solid in that department, and Richie Szaro, whose field goals and conversions have made him the top scorer on the Crimson varsity, should be a constant threat...
Spirit will win you a ball game that you wouldn't otherwise win, but you have to play a fairly solid brand of football in the process. Harvard hasn't, and only the most uninitiated observer of the Harvard team this fall has failed to notice...