Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Lakers, led by Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, overpowered the Boston Celtics 123-113 to even the best of seven series for the National Basketball Association Champioinship...
Small wonder that space is almost as precious to the British Museum as its best-known treasure, the Elgin marbles. To end the congestion, the museum trustees have for 20 years been looking ahead to the prospect of building an annex across the square, and Britain's governments have allotted more than $5,000,000 toward the purchase of necessary land. Last month, however, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Patrick Gordon Walker, announced that the Labor government had scrapped its plans for a museum addition. Even more shocking was his hint that the museum...
...give a complete picture of a culture-not only the people on top, but through everybody on down as well," he explains. Also successful was a centenary exhibition honoring Karl Marx, who wrote most of Das Kapital in the museum's reading room. The Duveen Gallery, housing the Elgin marbles, is equipped with a new recorded explanation of the treasure. The most ambitious new project is the General Catalogue of Printed Books, the world's largest single publication, whose 263 volumes list the library's Western language books printed between...
...Francisco General Hospital reports "some cases" of malformation among babies of LSD-using mothers, but Chief Obstetrician R. Elgin Orcutt feels that he lacks enough data to show a cause-and-effect relationship. U.C.L.A.'s Dr. William McGlothlin agrees. "I know of some miscarriages among LSD users," he says, "but I don't know if the rate is higher than among other people." Dr. McGlothlin, who works with hippies, has a federal grant to help him get more data...
...electronic watch whose tuning-fork action assures precision, makes the timepiece hum instead of tick. So fast did the new lines catch on that Bulova figures their combined dollar-sales volume during the past fiscal year exceeded overall watch sales of either of Bulova's chief U.S. competitors, Elgin and Hamilton. Not content with that, the company further broadened its product line last February by acquiring Universal Genève, a Swiss manufacturer of luxury timepieces...