Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles County Museum showed off El Greco's magnificent, somberly calm St. Andrew.* Alongside the masterpiece, the museum displayed a fascinating find: a sheet of rare El Greco drawings in red chalk-preliminary sketches for St. Andrew and for another work (the head of a spectator in The Despoiling of Christ). For decades, the El Greco sketches had been misfiled in a British collector's album of drawings by Francisco Goya. They were picked up by Dr. William R. Valentiner, the museum's treasure hunter, for a bargain...
...other 60-minute man, Captain Dick Clasby, was a real triple-threat for the Crimson. His performance included: a perfect punt that hit the side-line chalk on the Dartmouth 2, a touchdown pass, a key interception, and the afternoon's biggest thrill--a 103-yard kickoff return nullified by a clipping penalty...
...style and with a purpose. He sailed into the Golden Horn on the Sultan's yacht, triumphantly marched past cheering crowds. He summoned Istanbul's elite to the Sultan's palace to a ball, and stood before them in full evening dress on a raised platform, chalk in hand, before a blackboard. For two hours he explained the new language, then the music blared, everyone drank, and the dancing went on until dawn. Nineteen twenty-eight became the Year One of Turkey's new cultural life...
...gates of Canada's Chalk River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past, radiation detection devices went wildly off scale. Inside the canvas was a 2½-ton aluminum tank, probably the most troublesome radioactive object that man has ever handled...
Last December, Chalk River's nuclear reactor had to be shut down because of leakage of radioactive material. The aluminum jackets around several of its uranium "fuel" rods had corroded and permitted "hot" products of the nuclear reaction to escape into the heavy water surrounding the rods. Thus the whole reactor, including the big tank that held the heavy water, was contaminated. The reactor could not be rebuilt until the tank had been properly taken care cf. With an announcer barking orders over a public-address system, men in gas masks and protective clothing started the ticklish operation...