Word: cementation
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Leopoldov Prison in central Czechoslovakia is a 17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found...
MOST famous cinema stars have, at one time or another, placed their hands & feet in a block of wet cement in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thereby receiving some desirable publicity and, after the cement has hardened, attaining a certain immortality. The only columnist who has been so honored is Louella Oettinger Parsons...
...script, Violets Are Blue (about an unwanted rosebush). Although he is now making $1,000 a week (roughly 40 times his silversmithing salary), he still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...
...streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...
Most experts believe, says Nininger, that the moon is covered with a thick blanket of meteoritic material, chips knocked off lunar rocks and other loose stuff. There is no water to help cement the fragments together, and the moon's gravitation is feeble. Pulverized lunar rock, he says, would weigh on the moon less than pine sawdust weighs on earth. He thinks there may be a considerable depth of this light debris on some parts of the moon...