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...underground tunnels, an underground building is not merely an extension of the tunnel system. Present technology does not allow us to hide a building--a structure below ground will make its presence felt on the ground because of the type of surface it generates and because of a shallow soil layer which cannot support large plant materials. In terms of its interaction with the rest of the Yard, the Pusey Library must be regarded as architectural landscaping rather than as a building which defines the space around it. The library will, however, be "visible;" windows and light wells will give...
...tradition of Thomas Hardy, Bates celebrated rural England in most of his 50 or so books. During World War II, he was commissioned by the R. A.F. to write fiction about the war; Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber pilot shot down over French soil, was one of the outstanding results. Bates was best known in the U.S. for The Darling Buds of May (1958), a novel about the zany fruit-picking, scrap-dealing Larkin family that was made into the movie The Mating Game...
...your mind is of slightly more questioning nature, and you need a name and an explanation, you could say they were like the baby twisters that hop over the Kansas highways in the summer. The kind that come with droughts, when the soil is too dry to grip the earth. There's a name for them in the encyclopaedia, but more can be divined...
...daughter's wedding day, a request more personal than official. Kissinger took it to the Israelis, who granted it. Then there was the time when the Israelis wanted to send a party, accompanied by rabbis, to retrieve the bodies of some of their dead soldiers from Egyptian soil. The request might have been laughed at earlier, but found immediate sympathy and was approved...
...Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter...