Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the politicians' explanations, this fact remained: the West has done well in Italy during the past three years, but not well enough to chalk up an unqualified victory on its record...
Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum has added a tiny new prize to its treasures-an 8 in. by 6⅛ in. drawing of the Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci. Done in black and red chalk on specially prepared paper, it was evidently a study for the Louvre's famed oil of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne; it has the left-to-right shading that left-handed Leonardo favored...
Without Charge Jack Hamm of Waco, Texas draws and paints in ink, charcoal, watercolors, pastels, oils or with airbrush. He teaches nine commercial-art courses at Waco's Baylor University, and he has been commuting by air to Houston (160 miles) to run a chalk-talk television program which last week won a prize as the most entertaining TV show in the city. To Hamm, these are just sidelines. His most important job costs him more than $100 a week...
...army cot on which to display their wares. Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean soldier...
...Canada's Chalk River atomic center, Pontecorvo helped design the heavy-water pile, still the "reactor of most advanced design and performance." He knew the secrets of the plutonium-producing piles at Hanford. After the war, he was a senior officer at Harwell, the British atomic research center. Pontecorvo, whose brother and sister were lifelong Communists, might have been betraying reactor data from 1943 on, the committee guessed. He was rated by some colleagues as an even abler scientist than Fuchs. After Fuchs, said the committee, "Pontecorvo may be plausibly rated as the second deadliest betrayer . . . Certain...