Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was laying about him with splendid gusto last week, wisecracking about American politics ("Say, what ever happened to Lyndon Johnson?"), needling the British (he says they deliberately spread misconceptions), even taking a backhanded dig at his pal in Paris, Charles de Gaulle...
...supply of old masters available to the market is just about exhausted, but U.S. museums seem to keep right on buying old masters. In a trenchant little article in The Art Gallery, Director Daniel Catton Rich of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum charges that in the process they often dig up paintings that should have been left buried, that the era of masterpieces is giving way to the "era of the second-rate...
...remember, Buildings and Grounds began its well-publicized campaign to wipe out the rabid squirrels by scattering poisoned acorns around the elm trees. The deranged squirrels, they reasoned, would overlook the incongruity and bury the nuts for future use. Then, when the Spring thaws came, the animals would dig the acorns, eat them, and expire...
...World War II Desert Rats, does indeed set prices for the industry. Reason: almost all other African producers see the advantage of selling to the De Beers powerhouse rather than engaging in cutthroat competition. Even the Soviets recently chose Oppenheimer to market their Siberian gems. As for those who dig his diamonds out, Oppenheimer pays his unskilled African laborers better than most, but it still does not seem like much: an average 78? a day, plus free housing, food and medical care...
...novelist with the old know-how, all is not lost. The reader of this Tom-Swift-in-Hell story has the choice of a dozen characters with whom it should be a privilege to identify. There is this tycoon, an old Walter Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife. And (what larks in the ark in this subterranean Ararat) his mistress. A Jewish nuclear physicist clever enough to work the survival gear and brave enough to make like a space...