Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stops appreciatively on the massive, floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...
...NASA's 707, though, the steep-angled flaps have help. Just ahead of their leading edges, where they join the wing, streams of high-pressure air from the compressors of the jet engines spurt out of nozzles and bathe the flaps' upper surfaces, smoothing the air flow and creating extra lift. To supply enough air at 100 lbs. per sq. in., the engines must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that...
Under this we-mean-business management, the nation's fourth largest defense contractor (after Lockheed, Boeing and North American) is behaving like a lithe and freshly revitalized giant. In Miami last week, General Dynamics showed off the first scale model of its TFX adjustable-wing plane, for which orders may reach as high as $8 billion in the next five years, and in Washington the company was awarded a $237 million contract to build the Centaur mooncraft. In Quincy, Mass., it laid the keel for the first vessel-an attack submarine-that it will build in the shipyard...
...entrance, known by its Arp-like curving marquee that tried to turn the facade toward Fifth Avenue, is now a wide breezeway through to the garden. To the east of it, Architect Philip Johnson, once the museum's director of architecture and design, has built a new wing with a facade of muscular steel beams framing huge plates of glass from sidewalk to roof (a similar wing will eventually be built to the west). Inside, the doubly expanded museum seems more than doubly competent to its task. Extra room lets it show how the whole family of modern...
...aiding other inmates. Texas' Huntsville Prison now has a "writ room," where prisoners can polish up petitions like collegians in the library. Kansas State Penitentiary offers a big law library, partly the gift of beneficent lawyers. At Washington's State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, a special "law wing" provides typewriters as well as texts. Some prisoners are getting so legalistic, complains a Tennessee state prosecutor, that "it's getting a damned sight harder to keep them in than to put them...