Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...LOVING EYE, by. William Sansom (253 pp.; Reynal; $3.50) has a hero who, like Emmet Booth, is obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing...
There's No Place Like Home. From the windows in his office of the Teamsters' tan brick Seattle headquarters, Beck can point out across Taylor Avenue to five lots that he owns. Around the corner on Denny Way is the service station he co-owned with the Teamsters' Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster (who recently sold his share, but not until after the station had sold the Teamsters at least $165,000 worth of service from 1950 to 1955). Near by are the two parking lots Beck bought for $28,000 and sold to the Teamsters...
Ever since the end of February, spring has seemed just around the corner for Detroit's automakers. Last week, at the end of March, spring was still not here-and the industry was worried. With dealer stocks up to 729,040 cars as of March 1st and sales 8% fewer in the first 20 days of March than in 1956, the industry cut April-June production schedules 11.1% below the first quarter, 6.5% more than originally intended. About the only encouraging harbinger came from Ward's Reports, which noted that retail auto sales in the second ten days...
...newly ordained Spanish priests to foster a "higher grade of generous catholicity" and to incorporate the church "more and more resolutely in those currents of mutual cooperation in which many persons today see the future and salvation of the world." He reminded them that Spain, "although placed in a corner of this old Europe, is conscious that today already the trumpets are sounding in a world that must throw down the cracked walls of puny particularism." The priests, said the Pope, should foster a "Catholic spirit that is ... capable of surpassing itself to reach others better without prejudice toward anyone...