Word: tubular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convair plant at San Diego one day last December, a mysterious piece of hardware was carefully cantilevered down from a vertical position inside a closely guarded seven-story shed. Draped in a white canvas shroud, lashed to a yellow, tubular steel trailer, the top-secret cargo was hauled out onto U.S. Highway 80 to begin a 2,500-mile trip across the southern U.S. As it rolled over the mountains, across the plains and into the towns, it looked like a wrapped-up oil tank. Nothing betrayed the presence of the most monstrous potential new weapon in the U.S. arsenal...
...uncluttered. Knight's solution: to build his memorial pavilion between the two levels so that its roof becomes part of the plaza. Inside the glass-walled pavilion is an auditorium in the round. Jutting through the roof of the building into the plaza will be three arrangements of tubular, gold-colored carillons that will soar 80 feet into the air and gently chime throughout the center. "Architecture," said Knight, "will be able to reach out and touch the lives of many more people than would be possible through vision alone...
...Boston's Dr. Robert Edward Gross, then 33, operated successfully to eliminate a patent ductus arteriosus-a tubular connection between pulmonary artery and aorta that normally closes soon after birth. Falling back on Alexis Carrel's brilliant experiments in the early 1900s, which showed that arteries if handled properly can be cut apart and stitched together again, with or without an intervening graft, Gross next developed an operation to cut out an abnormal narrowing (coarctation) of the aorta...
...says Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Architect Marcel Breuer, 54, whose precisely detailed, cleanly functional stone and wood houses have established him as one of today's top U.S. architects. And Architect Breuer has good reason to know. Famed in his youth as the designer of the first tubular steel furniture, he came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach architecture at Harvard and soon began building houses (until 1941 in partnership with Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius) that opened new architectural frontiers...
Between marriages she felt forlorn. She wrote an essay on hats for a fashion competition (the industry, she observes with justifiable satisfaction, lost a servant but gained a customer) and once thought of selling tubular steel. Instead, in 1928, she married Ernest Simpson, a sometime member of the Coldstream Guards. The Simpsons had a modest but assured London social position, and at Melton Mowbray (in the hunting country, where the Prince of Wales was to establish his talent for falling off horses) Mrs. Simpson fatally met the Prince...