Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition covers a great deal of ground, roughly the northwestern third of South America, and a vast extent of time-27 centuries ending with the Spanish conquest in 1534. It includes clay pots and statuettes of extraordinarily grotesque vigor, and others that are outstanding for their subtle realism. A hat and a wall-hanging made entirely of feathers brighten the display. There is a poncho with a checkerboard pattern, and many cloths so elaborately embroidered that the eye cannot be brought to unravel their designs. Rock crystal, jade, silver, ivory and turquoise jewelry conjure up court scenes of exotic splendor...
...hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout: "It was a real nice afternoon-for a grandfather...
...Square since Lindberg began at Cambridge in 1911. And, save for clothing styles, undergraduate temper and attitude have remained constant. "I remember seeing a picture in the bank showing a line of students sporting those broad-brimmed straw 'skimmers'." Then, of course, "there was the era of the battered hat," he recalls, "before the fellows stopped wearing hats at all." Riots, or lesser displays of spring fever have also been common. "I remember one, just after they'd finished building Wigglesworth, when somebody there dropped a bag of water on a fried outside, and minutes later, there...
...evening," said Dulles next day, "I had a sense of complete recall to those days of 1945 when I gained a great admiration for Mr. Molotov's diplomatic skill. I am glad to see that he has not lost his touch. Yesterday Mr. Molotov produced out of the hat rabbits for all of us-peace in Korea, peace in Indo-China, an end to the armaments race . . . the ending of all tensions everywhere...
...S.Dak., and the name was prophetic. As coach of the Fighting Irish, Leahy piled up a record which rivaled even that of Knute Rockne. In eleven seasons, his Notre Dame teams won 87 games (and four national championships) while losing only eleven. But Perfectionist Leahy was a sideline-pacing, hat-crushing pessimist who drove himself harder than he drove his teams, was forced to go to the Mayo Clinic for repeated physical checkups. Last season, stricken with acute pancreatitis, he was even given last rites. This week, on doctors' orders to take life easier, 45-year-old Frank Leahy...