Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great body of important Early American stone sculpture is in danger of annihilation. Weather, children, riflemen and clumsy power mowers are rapidly wreaking havoc on the ancient tombstones that stand row on row in cemeteries all over New England and the South. But with the help of a Ford Foundation grant, two young artists, Ann Parker and Avon Neal, have been haunting graveyards since 1961, preserving the crumbling heritage in a less vulnerable form. Last week a show of 120 of their meticulous gravestone rubbings (see opposite page) opened at the Brooklyn Museum...
...many of them that nobody had to work very hard. Sets of tall, matched footmen preceding one's sedan chair (the Countess of Northumberland had nine) were an 18th century equivalent of his-and-her Cadillacs. With little to do and plenty to drink, footmen frequently wrought havoc among the maids, cooks and nurses, but no one liked to break up a set of footmen when things got out of hand, so it was usually the seduced girl who was sacked. The elite of this species were the running footmen, whose duties were to carry messages-sometimes 50 miles...
...Amira and John Wideman, Penn's two representatives on the Ivies' list of top ten scorers, hit well for the Quakers, playing havoc with both Crimson defenses. The man-to-man proved particularly ineffective, however, against the two Penn guns...
...will be a somewhat patchwork outfit that takes the field today for Yale in the Elis' 79th football meeting with Harvard. A remarkably healthy squad until two weeks ago, the Bulldogs have been hit by a sudden rash of injuries that have played havoc with their three-team system...
Suddenly the bottom falls out of Momma's act. Baby June, aged 13, runs away and launches an independent career as June Havoc. Indomitably, Momma decides to make a star out of Louise. Unhappily, the girl has no talent. But she has a body, and Momma soon finds a way to make it famous...