Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade designed by Harrison & Abramovitz...
...Louis one evening last week, a tall, commanding-looking Negro in a dark suit and vest walked into the main rotunda of the city's Old Courthouse. For 30 minutes, he stood there and told TV viewers the story of the slave Sam Blow who picked up the nickname Great Scott-pronounced Dred Scott in Sam Blow's Gullah accent-whose suit was tried twice in that courthouse...
Untidy Warren. The four-story granite house is composed of a series of suites grouped around a central rotunda, lit by a skylight that is invisible from the ground. No expense was spared on the interior fittings. Wrote William J. Murtagh, director of education of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "It has the best frescoed walls I have ever seen in this country, and the lavishness of the marble and wood inlay work almost defies description...
...sentimental Capitol Hill ceremony mustering many of the Congressional colleagues who voted to end his 20-year Republican House leadership in 1959, a bust of Massachusetts' genial Representative Joseph Martin, 77, this week was unveiled in the "Hall of Fame" rotunda of the Old House Office Building. Sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, artist sister of ex-Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Baron Robert Silvercruys. the bust, commissioned by women's Republican clubs, will take its place alongside eight other hallowed Congressional heads al ready in the hall...
Despite all the soft comforts, one customer has found dangers: strolling past the taupe-gold-champagne Rotunda Reception Hall toward the Pompeiian Plaza, she became so enthralled by the decor that she tumbled smack into the Pompeiian pool. Fortunately, she had not yet changed into her Pompeiian gown and Pompeiian slippers. But she got antisepticized anyway...