Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrance to the fair is the geodesic dome, a 78-ft.-high, aluminum, gold-anodized building based on the original design by Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, which resembles a giant, gilded armadillo shell and houses a kaleidoscope of scientific and technical exhibits. Across seven screens -which take up one-third of the interior wall space-flash keyed sets of color pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people...
Using slides, Doctor J. Otto Brendel indicated that "nothing is new under the sun," during the third Thursday afternoon lecture, held on July 23. Brendel, a professor of fine arts and archeology at Columbia University, spoke on "Classical Style in Modern...
Working students, more and more common at Harvard during the past few years, established a new record this last year. Nearly one-third of the undergraduates in the College and the Summer School, highest in history, accepted employment at some point during the scholastic year...
...third offering of the season The Boston Summer Playhouse is presenting a pleasant, if not exceptional production of Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter. This amusing account of the hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage, including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the first child, the problems with the teenage children, the "other woman," and finally the mellow maturity of middle...
...Public Health Service in 1931, he began hopscotching around on two-year tours of anti-VD duty. In 1934 Dr. Heller married Susie May Ayres, daughter of a Tennessee banker. John Roderick III was born to the traveling Hellers in Harrisburg, Pa., second son Hanes in New Orleans, third son Winder (rhymes with finder) in Washington. At least one should keep the M.D. line going: Hanes, 19, is a pre-med student at Yale...