Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of western Sicily was turned into a giant refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Siciliani nervously slept outdoors even in such relatively unscathed cities as Palermo, because aftershocks continued to be felt for days. At the quake's epicenter, the homeless made tents of tarpaulin, huddled by bonfires, and waited for the government to distribute food and medicine, much of it contributed by the U.S. and Britain. Then, as if nature had not already done its worst, violent rains and winds lashed the quake area at week's end, turning the refugee encampments into quagmires and halting...
...wake of labor-camp sentences meted out to four youthful critics of the Soviet regime two weeks ago, the Kremlin last week cracked down on the man who had done the most to dramatize the plight of the dissenting quar tet to the outside world. The Soviet government fired Pavel Litvinov, 30, a physicist, from his post as a lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Precision Chemical Technology. It charged that his absence from the institute during the trial was "an infringement of work discipline...
...novel is as old as Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type. Franz seeks redemption for having played a role...
...selection committee for the world team apparently believed that Allen deserved a chance to compete in the world competition, where he finished fifth last year. He will train strenuously at Lake Placid. N.Y. until leaving for the world tournament training camp at Villar, Switzerland, next month...
...conducting career, you not only have to have opportunities; you have to make them a success." Mehta began pushing and making successes-while still a student. After the Hungarian revolution in 1956, he organized a student orchestra in seven days and conducted it in a concert at a refugee camp outside Vienna. In 1958, he boldly programmed an all-Schoenberg concert, did so well that he parlayed it into further bookings...