Word: clapboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These professionals live and learn in absolute informality under the guidance of Serkin and, since 1960, Cellist Pablo Casals, who annually makes the trip from Puerto Rico just for the festival. A clapboard barn has been turned into a communal dining room and studio; a second violin might rub elbows with Eugene Ormandy over a dish of veal and boiled potatoes, and everybody takes a turn at doing the waiting chores; last weekend two of the men on duty were Max Rabinovitsj, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony, and Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet...
...year) on their airy 381 acres of rolling greenery. They are not formally graded. No specific courses or credits are required. With the guidance of a faculty counselor they can map their own path toward a degree. They have social freedom as well: they can leave their white clapboard houses any evening, stay out overnight, keep liquor in their cabinets, have men in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekends...
...steaming noon last week, intelligence agents of the Philippine Constabulary closed in on a modest clapboard house near Manila's center and roused a pale, gaunt man from a pre-lunch nap. His indignant protest of innocence lasted only until the agents found letters from Mao Tse-tung and other top Communist leaders. When confronted by the now respectable Luis Taruc, he admitted he was Jesus Lava, 51, general secretary of the Philippine Communist Party. After years in the backwoods, Lava had apparently come to Manila to visit his family...
Recruits & Munitions. In Washington, the State Department blandly denied all. "These attacks," said a spokesman, "are neither supported nor condoned by the Government." Perhaps not, but Miami was alive last week with exile activity. Once again, Cubans were turning up at the old clapboard house on 23rd Street that served as a recruiting center for the Bay of Pigs operation, getting physical exams, then mysteriously dropping out of sight. Small groups of Cubans were training at isolated farms outside Miami. At Key Largo, a 28-ft. launch loaded with exile munitions caught fire, was popping while firemen were trying...
Most big companies are busy courting architects, wooing builders and using massive advertising campaigns to persuade the home buyers to insist on their products. Makers of aluminum, the fastest-rising among the new sidings, privately ask how long steel clapboard can resist rust. The steel-clapboard men, joined by the makers of a plywood coated with plastic, imply that aluminum snaps, crackles and pops during sharp temperature changes, and that a baseball or a hailstone can leave a permanent dent. The hottest war of all is the advertising battle between the gas and electrical utility companies for the right...