Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST PEOPLE GO to Las Vegas to gamble. Some need the convenience of a wedding chapel that will accept Mastercharge. A few might enjoy the nickel slot machines. However, there have probably been very few people in the history of Las Vegas who have cruised the Strip to study its architecture...
Robert Venturi, a professor of architecture at Yale, his wife, and twelve architecture students visited the city in the fall of 1968 to study the strip as a part of a studio course that Venturi was teaching at Yale. Given free room and board at the Stardust Hotel, the finest on the strip, a reduction in the hourly price for the use of a Howard Hughes helicopter, and the company of an official of the electric sign company, the group spent ten days in Las Vegas in an attempt to document and analyze urban sprawl. Fearing that the civic beautification...
Courage. Airborne, the trio brandished their weapons and ordered the pilot to make a refueling stop at Jackson, Miss., then head for Detroit. Since embarrassment helps keep people in line, the three also forced the male passengers to strip to their underwear. The hijackers soon broadcast their ambitious demand: $10 million in cash. Southern Airways placed $500,000 aboard an aircraft and dispatched it to Detroit in hopes of a settlement. Despite the efforts of Detroit officials to talk the hijackers into landing, they made the pilot shoot across Lake Erie to Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Meanwhile, the passengers...
Dowling and his teammates inspired the nationally-syndicated cartoon "Doonesbery," which appeared daily in The Yale Daily News. "Garry's (Tradeau) cartoons had a lot of meaning for the teams," he recalled. "Every person in his strip was a particular person...
Slithering up walls is clearly not Snavely's forte, and although he passionately hates slinky reptiles, he answers to the monicker "Snake." Steve picked up the nickname in high school from the cartoon strip "Snake Snavely," and it's been his ever since...