Word: tans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koppers Co.) drove the work at a prodigious clip. The first offices were occupied in seven months; the job completed in 16. Some 300 architects had a hand in its design. It has five floors, each of which is painted a distinctive color-powder blue, grey, peach, green and tan. It has 7,370 windows, but it is entirely air-conditioned by a unique system, regulated by electronic "eyes" on the roof which adjust the temperature by the sun's heat. By conservative official reckoning, it cost $83 million. At first it was called "Somervell's folly"; critics...
Ramrod Discipline. Today, under the superintendency of Major General Richard J. Marshall, distant cousin of General Marshall, V.M.I, stretches out over 300 acres, a place of fortress-like tan stucco-covered buildings, looming towers, and crenellated walls. V.M.I. still takes a fierce pride in its ramrod discipline. All cadets live, four to a room, in two adjoining barracks, kept always in inspection-ready order. Uniforms are hung on racks (there are no closets), cots are stacked each day, rifles and sabers are racked against the walls. The day officially begins with breakfast formation at 7 a.m. From then on-through...
...When the tan, barrack-type buildings were put up in 1946, the City provided that they must be torn down in five years. The deadline was last February, but the University asked for an extension until the summer to demolish the houses to prevent turning veterans and ther families out during winter and school months...
Some of the units have already been destroyed in compliance with the lease issued by the City Council in 1946, but 54 buildings still Temain standing. A spokesman for the Cambridge Housing Authority said that the tan, board buildings are a "smudge on the landscape of the City, as well as the University...
Coming up to the final jump, a 4½-ft. spruce barrier, a pair of long shots, Nickel Coin (40-to-1) and Royal Tan (22-to-1), were neck & neck. Royal Tan crashed into the final hurdle, limped home across the finish line as Nickel Coin breezed to a six-length victory. A poor third: Derrinstown, who threw his rider but was remounted...