Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overshadowing the façade was the high dome, 8,909,200 lbs. of cast-iron ribs and plates so big at the bottom perimeter that an arc of it overhung the main wall-an engineering oddity concealed by the pediment topping the colonnade in front of the wall. Some critics prized this set-out look of the dome for the "cascade" effect it gave to a viewer standing close and looking sharply up. Classicists, however objected that the style varied too much from Old World models, whose domes are, set well back so that walls and roof can buttress...
...classicists, whether he knew or not, was House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who three years ago pushed through the proposal to "correct" the perspective by moving the east front wall 32½ ft. forward. To end the crumbling, he wanted a new façade of longlasting marble, and he rubbed his hands at the thought of additional space for congressional offices, a new restaurant, a tourist-free corridor. Cost for the overhaul: $17 million...
...change tend to accept it peaceably. The new marble, plus the creamy paint on the dome, undoubtedly are an improvement over the flaked-sandstone look. And the forward shift of the front is so comparatively slight that visitors hardly note a significant change in the relationship of dome and wall...
...speculation got out of hand on Wall Street? Many Wall Streeters fear that in some areas it has. The stock exchanges, acutely aware of the rising fever in the big bull market, are doing what they can to tamp it. The New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it will tighten up its requirements for getting a stock listed. The American Stock Exchange, for the first time in its history, put a ban on stop orders-automatic orders to sell a stock once it reaches a specified price during a decline-on all round-lot transactions...
Chances are that the new moves will not seriously restrain some of the giddiest speculation. Wall Street is less worried about speculation in listed stocks-though they, too, have their fast ups and downs-than about the speculation in new issues. Most new offerings first appear on the volatile over-the-counter market, where they are harder to control than on the exchanges. Datamation floated 80,000 shares at 2 in February, now is selling at 12½-even though it was in the red last year. Sealed Air Corp., which offered 100,000 shares at 1 last October...