Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busking with pretty much the same motives in mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife...
...third member of the team, Emile Zola Berman, was once described by an associate as a "marvelously warm person" who looks like "a living version of Ichabod Crane." Last week he spotted Mary Sirhan shyly working her way through the reporters in the courtroom. Berman bowed gracefully and kissed Mrs. Sirhan's hand-a gesture for which she was obviously unprepared. Nor was her son prepared to be defended by a Jew for a crime he allegedly committed because of his victim's pro-Israeli campaign oratory...
During the Roman spring and summer, 3,000 visitors a day file through the Sistine Chapel, staring, as long as their necks can stand the crane, at Michelangelo's great swirling frescoes on the vaulted ceiling. This week millions of television viewers can have a closer and more relaxed look at Michelangelo's rich creations in a new color movie, shot in many cases from only a few feet away - the closest filming of the ceiling ever permitted. Careful tuning of the TV set is obviously required, but The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man's Dream...
...other action last night the Council passed two resolutions supporting the Harvard varsity football team in Saturday's game with Yale. One, by Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, congratulated "the coaching staffs and players of both teams BUT wishes that the sons of Eli will return to New Haven with the knowledge that 'second best to Harvard is still very good...
...Crane and Mrs. Ackermann gave general views of the City, including the problem of dealing with a huge nontaxable private institution. "The City of Cambridge is only six square miles and of this, three square miles is taken up by Harvard, M.I.T. and Fresh Pond," Crane said. This situation brings both problems and blessings to the City, he added...