Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says the architect. Between and above, the gaps yield clerestories that make the building, says Lundy, "a jewel box that lets light in during the day and light out at night." Inside are multiple concrete trees that break up the interior into a garden, which is accentuated by the sunken atrium in the middle...
Induced Meditation. Visitors must enter from a sunken patio below the wall, instinctively ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...
...route from Leghorn to West Africa with a cargo of textiles, rugs and Olivetti typewriters sank in a storm off Naples. Insurance company divers said the water was too deep for salvage. The company ordered new divers from West Germany and, meanwhile, threw a police-boat cordon around the sunken ship. When the Germans arrived, they found the freighter stripped clean, presumably by human chains of skindivers working at night. At the same time, the vicoli (back alleys) of Naples were ablaze with Oriental rugs hung out to dry and the narrow streets shaded by bolts of damp cloth stretched...
...Incontrovertible evidence" of the arms buildup came on Feb. 16 when U.S. and South Vietnamese planes sighted and sank a camouflaged, 120-ft. Viet Cong supply ship at Vungro Bay. Last week, after a tough fire fight, government forces finally reached the sunken ship. Aboard it and in caches nearby were at least 100 tons of arms, ammo and supplies, including nearly a million rounds of small-arms ammunition, 2,000 Mauser rifles, 1,000 submachine guns and 500 Ibs. of medical supplies from North Viet Nam, Communist China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Russia and-oddly enough-Japan. The ship itself...
Fresh from a morning spent fording the streams in the Yard, hungry Winthrop men hurried to their sunken dining hall for lunch yesterday, only to find that the kitchen had been flooded...