Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
...sons in their Manhattan apartment one night after a colleague phoned to say that a cyclotron at Columbia wasn't working right. Gallagher never arrived at the laboratory. At dawn the next morning, a man found Gallagher's body -shot once in the chest with a .25-cal. weapon-lying beneath the underbrush in a section of Central Park called the Ramble. Gallagher had not been robbed; he had no criminal record; he had no access to any classified nuclear information, police said. At week's end police could offer no hint to the killer...
...Southern Cal's 400-yard medley relay team posted a 3:30.9 for an NCAA record, while their Bob Bennett lowered the American 100-yard backstroke mark with a 53.2 leadoff leg in the same event...
...Rohe, is as elegant and impeccably dressed as if he were managing Tiffany's. All this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million in 1959 to $122 million last year. Last week he capped a five-year diversification program by buying the Cal-Val Research & Development Corp., a California producer of giant shock absorbers and bomb-rack parts for the Air Force...
...U.C.L.A.'s No. 1-ranked Bruins: their 26th straight victory, 91-81, over crosstown rival Southern Cal, in the last game of the regular season-thus becoming the first major college basketball team (TIME, Jan. 17) to go through a full season unbeaten since Ohio State...