Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the red-brick Glasgow factory of D. & H. Cohen Ltd. come 150,000 colorful kilts annually, which ladies eagerly buy off clothing racks throughout most of the world. In the U.S., the cry is for "knee ticklers," but for Chair man Denis Bonchy Cohen, 51, even mini-kilts are possible. "As long as it's pleated and made to our basic design," says Cohen, "they can have...
...fast. From six large depots in Mexico City, they can order prefabricated steel frames, desks, blackboards, a basic 50-book library, toilet and shower, and quarters for a teacher. The village pays a third of the cost (about $400), supplies such wall material as concrete, adobe or brick, and provides the labor to assemble the structure, which can be put together in a few days. "Knowing that they have contributed," explains Construction Engineer Enrique Estrada, "gives villagers a sense of pride and ownership...
...area have at least doubled; some 1,000 ghetto merchants have complained that they cannot get insurance at all. Watts now has only two major retail stores, one of them a new White Front Inc. department store with fortress-like slits instead of display windows, especially designed to thwart brick throwers. To meet the Los Angeles situation, 108 California insurance companies have formed a $15 million, assigned-risk "Watts pool" that has insured more than 500 merchants against fire and riot damage-though not against the threat of theft that such businessmen face daily. Similar plans are likely to emerge...
...that guy.' I would say things like, 'Beautiful baby, beautiful . . . Man, where is the next action?' And usually I'd get by." But Kane and Bailey had a few close calls under sniper fire. At one point Bailey was hit in the back by a brick and his camera was taken away by an angry mob. Reinforcements appeared: Loye Miller and Dean Fischer came from TIME'S Chicago bureau and Wally Terry from Washington. Said Terry, who was recently in Viet Nam: "I felt in more danger in Detroit than I ever was over there...
...have gone there to do some children's portraits. He drove into the action in his station wagon and, using the steering wheel as an easel, started sketching, with TIME'S cover in mind. He recalls: "Whenever I would get out of the car, they would throw bricks at me. I was such a target with that sketchbook! The brick or stone would hit that pastel and it would fly all over. I had gone through all of the TIME photos of Watts when I did the cover on Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles. Yet I wasn...