Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, two cars pulled up to a little-used gate at the Duc de Luynes's 8,000-acre estate near Paris. A few blows of a hammer knocked away the rusty padlock; shadowy figures slipped inside, made a beeline for a cellar window in the 17th century château, got it open, and climbed through...
...Chicago, Col. Robert McCormick announced that he had received a gift from the Mayor of Cartagena: a stone from the 17th century walls of the Caribbean seaport. The new acquisition brings to 124 the stones he has collected from 48 states, 16 battlefields and 60 other places of "historical significance" and which are now mortared in the fastness of the south wall of the Tribune Tower...
Virtue In Danger. In a similar but more embattled position is Delegate George Shaffer of the 17th Michigan District, which is north of Detroit. An employee of the telephone company, he hardly gets off the telephone even after hours; on any evening he may receive between a dozen and two dozen calls from political workers. He has had 550 letters (350 from Ike fans), and his mailman, says Shaffer, is getting a little tired of the whole business. "Even my neighbors," reports Shaffer indignantly, "have tried to influence me while playing bridge or canasta...
Shaffer himself is not particularly interested in which candidate is chosen, as long as he represents majority will in the 17th District (a poll is now being taken to determine that will). Says Shaffer: "So far I have been able to stay on the fence and keep both ears to the ground. But it is a difficult position...
...frequent punishment administered by the College in the 17th century was rustication, a short cooling off period with farm chores in the country for the offender...