Word: digs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sahara, a wind-blown waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons voted to continue the Spanish Sahara's present territorial status...
...Israelis have strict rules forbidding amateur archaeologists from poking around the digs and carting off whatever strikes their fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders...
...problem that every aging prodigy faces: youngsters are tapping him on the shoulder and saying, "Move over, Dad." This spring, as never before, professional golf has been invaded by an army of ambitious newcomers who can belt a ball every bit as far as their elders (or farther), dig divots on the greens with the bite of their approach shots, and putt as if the cups were canyons. Their dedication, determination and disrespect ("Arnie who?") underline their promise. Five of the best...
...Council passed Vellucci's proposal unanimously. "They're going to move the bulldozers into Harvard Square tomorrow morning and dig out the Harvard Yard," Vellucci bubbled afterwards. More skeptical Council observers noted that the City still hasn't taken action on Vellucci's previous proposal to turn the Lampoon building into a dog pound...
...people who dig The Factory are going to dig it forever," says Sammy Davis Jr., who reckons that Los Angeles has room enough for 20 more places like it. His reckoning is contagious. Tony Curtis, a Factory regular, is about to open a private club of his own called The Candy Store, the defunct Romanoff's will soon be reopened as The Jazz Suite, and Brian Morris is moving into town with The Bumble, patterned after his private Ad Lib club in London. Looking farther afield, the directors of The Factory themselves are planning to franchise other clubs...