Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Rapids, Mich., 56-year-old Earl Dove battened down his home, and started to move his family into the basement; the next thing he remembers is finding himself on a heap of splintered lumber, 50 ft. from the house. In Goldwater, Mich., a four-inch piece of straw flew like a steel-tipped arrow and imbedded itself in a woman's neck. In Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland, a baby was sucked out of a house and hurled to its death-still in its bassinet. The same vacuum pressure pulled the wedding ring from the finger of the baby...
...begging to find wall space there. Among its U.S. painting treasures, rarely seen together for lack of gallery space, are 37 Sargents, 22 Gilbert Stuarts, 15 Homers, eleven Copleys, eight Cassatts, seven paintings each by Eakins, Childe Hassam, Ryder, Benjamin West and Whistler, six each by Thomas Cole, Arthur Dove and the Peale brothers, five each by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt and John Sloan...
After thirty minutes of bedlam, an engineer arrived and shut the water off at a central control. "Maybe we should send out a little white dove," a watcher suggested...
...Radcliffe Swimming Team dove, swam, corkscrewed, carried weights, sat down, and walked to victory over six other schools in the Brandeis Swimming Meet last night...
...from a wire 70 ft. high. Once he was warned that a stream was too dangerous to swim in, being chock full of poisonous serpents, carnivorous disease-carrying insects and razor-teethed fish. Belmondo tossed a chunk of corned beef into the water. When nothing happened to it, he dove in, saying: "What the hell, if they're not going to chew on that they're certainly not going...