Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Split Bricks. The remarkable thing is that Elvis the private human being has not been terribly touched by it all. He still calls elders of a year or more by their surnames, keeps in top physical shape with touch-football games, holds a black belt in karate (earned during his stint in the service), and can split a brick or a stacked pair of two-by-four boards with his right hand (which, as a result, is slightly deformed...
Like the third little pig of legend, Russia's new leadership recognizes the wisdom of building in brick. Nikita Khrushchev for years had huffed and puffed in favor of prefabricated concrete slabs, relegating the lowly brick to minor status in the nation's crash housing program. But last week, when the new economic plans of Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were disclosed, the brick was back in the planners' priorities. That alone would not keep the wolf from the door, but some of the other decisions announced would certainly help...
...years or more. The coach is a torts lawyer, the star attack man a 33-year-old insurance broker; there are also two stockbrokers on the squad. The club pays no salaries, awards no letters, has never even got around to hanging the framed team photographs in its red brick clubhouse five miles from downtown Baltimore. Practice scrimmages are studiedly informal: the losers buy the winners beer. "We just have a good time," says Coach Ben Goertemiller-at the expense of the nation's best college teams. Since 1946, the Mt. Washington Wolfpack has won 185 games, lost only...
Although she is hopeful that all the incoming freshmen can be accommodated in the brick dormitories, Mrs. Stimpson said that girls in the metropolitan Boston area may have to commute temporarily. She added, however, that this year's system of "freshman houses" will not be continued. "We lost off-campus space last year when buildings were torn down for the library," she said, "but now that we've acquired new housing, there should be no problem...
...story brick house of Major Wilmer McLean at Appomattox, Va., on Palm Sunday, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieut. General Ulysses S. Grant. That act signified the end of the Civil War, and with it the bloodshed that cost the lives of 618,000 men-more than have died in all of America's other wars combined...