Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crew-cut and impassive, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin strode into the United Nations' glass house in Manhattan last week for the opening of the special session of the General Assembly. He listened with obvious satisfaction as the delegates quickly adopted the agenda-discussion of peace in the Middle East-and adjourned for the weekend, to commence serious debate this week. As the highest-ranking Russian visitor to the U.N. since Khrushchev's blucher-banging sortie in 1960, Kosygin was a man with a mission. Having failed to bail out their Arab client-states on the battlefields, the Soviets...
...suggested: "Take a man who is about to die into a small room. All the doors, windows and ventilators should be thoroughly closed so that there is no place for the soul to get out. As soon as the man dies, his soul shall pierce or crack the window glass, thus giving proof of its existence." Courthouse observers estimate that the hearing will last all summer, but Myers considers himself fortunate in at least one respect: "I don't have to rule whether or not man has a soul." That, he explains, is a matter outside his court...
...part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of the King David Hotel. The glass panes in the Israel Museum were blasted out, and the Isaiah Scroll, most complete of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, was hastily moved into its underground vault. Most of the famed Chagall stained-glass windows in the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue were taken down in time, but a hole was blasted in one. Wrote Chagall from France: "I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe...
...demonstrators who had gathered in front of the doors. Other policemen clashed with another group, including Pinney, who attempted to join those in front of the door. A third group of policemen broke through the crowd outside to reach the entrance. In the shuffle, police crashed through the glass doors...
Enser W. Cole 3rd of Arlington, Va. (Biology); Harvey V. Fineberg of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Psychology); D. N. Fruedenberger of Rochester, N.Y. (English); Allan R. Glass of Fairefield, Conn. (Engineering and Applied Physics); David R. Goldman of Maplewood, N.J. (English); Stephen Griffith of Washington, D. C. (Government); Walter Hellerstein of New York (Government); Paul C. Julien of Waltham (Physics); D. B. MacDonald of Mercer Island, Wash. (History); E.J. McDonald Jr. of Washington, D.C. (Biology); Daniel C. S. Moulton of New York (Classics); James E. Pesando of Andover (Economics) and Woodriff D. Smith of San Antonio, Tex. (History...