Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweet Words." To watching Americans, the flight began uneventfully. Sitting in the control center at Cape Canaveral, Gus Grissom, handling the ground-to-space communication, told Carpenter that Aurora 7 was in a near-perfect orbit. "Sweet words," replied Carpenter. "I have the moon in the center of the window, and the booster is off to the right slightly." During his flight, Carpenter was supposed to complete several experiments that Glenn had been unable to carry out because of attitude-control system problems. He was scheduled to photograph cloud formations, test for the polarization of sunlight, look for comets close...
Unqualified Brilliance. Of all the jewels in Spence's casket, none shines with such unqualified brilliance as the exquisite baptistry window (in color, overleaf) designed by John Piper...
chessboard of 195 separate panels, each with its own colors and design. More than 2,000 sq. ft. of glass move toward a brilliant central mass of golden light. Set deep in its stone framework, the window has a different appearance from every angle. From directly below, all that is visible is a hazy radiance in the air; from across the nave, the light seems to burst in as though propelled from the outside...
...most industrial and farm imports from the U.S.. will be in place by early 1967. Though it is one of the Kennedy Administration's top-priority goals to negotiate bilateral tariff cuts by that date, the recent U.S. decision to raise duties on imported woven carpets and window glass prompted the Common Market to take a step in the opposite direction. Warned the council: unless there is "modification or satisfactory arrangement" of the U.S. tariff boosts, it will slap retaliatory taxes on goods it now buys from...
...Robert Anshen told the architects. "When men lived in caves," said William W. Caudill of Houston, "they poked holes in them to let air in and smoke out. The holes got bigger and bigger. Now the holes have eaten up the box." Others added that the all-window building has created still unsolved problems of glare and temperature control...