Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arkady Kuzmin of Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics explained that the thermal radiations they observed from Venus seemed to come from a solid surface. Moreover, Caltech's two big-dish antennas found the planet's actual diameter to be less than the 7,655-mile span that is observed optically. As a result, the astronomers assume that they have measured the planet itself and that the dense cloud covering is at least 40 miles thick, twice as thick as the cloud deck surrounding Earth...
...stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces, none more dazzling than its high-style jewelry (see color...
Upstream from Hanoi's abattoirs, sentries manned the guns atop the Pont Doumer, a spidery span built by the same engineers who erected the Eiffel Tower. From their perch, they could see other batteries: 37-mm. cannon, machine guns, hand-held automatic rifles-all poking skyward from the taller buildings of the capital. In the streets below, grim-faced boys snapped through the manual of arms with wooden rifles while pretty girls in pantaloons hurled mock grenades through automobile tires, many of them scoring two hits out of three over 25 yds. Beyond the city, crews of workers...
...keeping the pressure on Hanoi's communication and transportation lines, the U.S. will make infiltration of the South progressively more difficult. Already the North Vietnamese have been forced to rebuild their bridges at water level with crossbeams, then under cover of darkness slide boards across to span the rivers. "Sure," says one Air Force officer, "they can slip their supplies through on sampans and rebuild their bridges by night, but for every hole in the road they will need a few more men, a few more trucks to replace those we shoot up. And they don't have...
...abstract sculpture and reflects in a pond green with water plants. Even the museum's facade, of Tezontle volcanic rock, evokes the baked brown earth of Mexico. Though it already seems an indigenous part of its immemorial setting, the $13.6 million museum-designed and built in the incredible span of 19 months-opened only last year...