Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month before he took occupancy. When Physicist Dirac's thoughtful walks were disturbed by a trailing dog, the staff sniffed out its owners, asked them to keep it at home. Even the members' own children are banned from the Institute's eight small, mostly red brick buildings, can run and shout only in the nearby faculty "project," which consists of two-story garden apartments. The passion for privacy is so great that Greek Historian Harold Cherniss, whose secretary recently failed to block a telephone call, barked into the phone: "This interruption is an outrage...
Dazed, a young girl in a pink dress crawled through the smoke and collapsed at the feet of a trooper; he hardly had to shift position to kick her in the side. A large group of Negroes clustered in terror alongside the brick school building; with measured malevolence, three troopers lobbed three canisters of gas in their midst. At one point, an eerie silence enveloped the field, punctuated only by what sounded like men kicking footballs; it was the hollow clunk of cops kicking and clubbing fallen marchers. A white woman, her blue dress streaked with mud and grass stains...
Before sunset the first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote...
Pulpit Plugs. Greatest test of Daley's strength was another, more ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...
...brick U.S. Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...