Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...
Instant Slums. Washington's first answer to slums was the public-housing program, initiated 32 years ago. From a peak of 58,000 units a year in the early '50s, it has slowed to a 24,000-unit pace, partly because it soon became evident that new housing on old sites only created new instant slums, and partly because other localities refused to have them...
...both flanks. After a quick firefight, Army's 1958 AllAmerica halfback huddled with his assistant, Lieut. Dick McDaniel, a former Nebraska end, and called for a "quick draw"-an artillery barrage from the nearby 1st Air Cavalry Division. That play scored fine, and afterward, as Dawkins and his unit rested in Saigon, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky awarded him and McDaniel South Viet Nam's second highest decoration, the Gallantry Cross...
Critical to this and all future missions was the supersophisticated 3-ft.-high IBM instrument unit, packed with 3,900 lbs. of computers, monitors and guidance equipment so carefully contrived that the entire system was triply redundant. If one set of circuits disagreed with the other two, the system would take an instantaneous vote, with the majority ruling. In a series of programmed commands halfway through the 40-minute flight, the unit ordered itself and the second-stage engine to jettison...
...doing lab examinations, supervising Moroccan assistants, screening for tuberculosis, and performing routines surveillance of food, water and milk products or will work at the animal hospital. Veterinarians will work with the Moroccan and international staff of the Fes animal hospital. MD's will head a Rabat-based mobils lab unit doing mass screening and health studies and will assist the Director of the Institute of Hygiene...