Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Palmer, the game begun so long ago on the Latrobe golf course has obviously been good. But Palmer plays it for more than mere money; he plays it out of love. His ambition is to cement his place in golfing history by building up a record of victories in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. Fellow professionals need no such dramatic proof of Palmer's prowess: they already rank him as golfing's best...
...stray dogs as an avalanche gathers sticks and stones. At the head of the column, Arab women wailed and rent their garments, their faces plastered with clay in sign of mourning. Behind came the pallbearers, carrying a coffin that contained the body of Kassem Shakhnoub. That morning, at a cement plant where Shakhnoub worked, police had broken up a strike called by the Communist-led union. In the midst of the confusion, Shakhnoub had keeled over. Co-workers gathered around his body, shouting that he had been shot by the cops...
...Allen White observed while discussing the villain of this biography, that 20% of the people are permanently gullible. And it may be that White's figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...
Hero Julian Starke is a poet and a Briton and, consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...
Says California Painter Ricco Lebrun: "Rome's greatness says, 'We have achieved our ideals. You can achieve yours.' " Stirred by the Sistine Chapel, Lebrun is hard at work on a vast vinylite-and-cement mural, depicting scenes from Genesis. Equally inspired by Rome is Harvard-trained Henry Millon, 33, art historian and architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome...