Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flitting through the thickly wooded mountainsides, Tiro Fijo's men fought half a dozen bitter skirmishes. But in the deadly game of hide-and-seek, the guerrilla-wise soldiers came out on top, pressed steadily on toward Tiro Fijo's hacienda headquarters. Early one morning last week, a fleet of helicopters airlifted 170 crack troops into position surrounding the hacienda. The desperate Communists opened fire from underbrush and foxholes. In the three-hour fight, they wounded only one soldier; finally Tiro Fijo put the hacienda to torch and retreated into the mountains. That night his men ambushed...
...curbs help keep secret such statistics as membership figures, but they do not hide internal dissension: there is none. Christian Science is autocratically governed by a board of five directors with lifetime tenure who make all the major decisions for the church. Among them is the choice of Christian Science's president, who serves for a year as chief spokesman for the faith. The leader presented to this year's meeting was German-born Edward Froderman, a trustee of the church's Publishing Society, who gave up a vice-presidency of a Chicago bank 15 years...
...everybody knows it. Castro watches them; so do the British who own them, and the U.S. sends over numerous reconnaissance flights. So it was hardly surprising that Her Majesty's destroyer Decoy steamed up to look around. But it surprised Ray and his group. Frantically, they tried to hide their equipment. Then five of the party, including two freelance photographers, gunned away in the catamaran, hoping to decoy the Decoy away from the island while Ray stayed behind...
...tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that plays hide-and-seek with geometry, now duncing up into conical pinnacles, now forming a hole so that real and artificial rains can pour through onto Sculptor Harry Bertoia's metal flowers below. People can walk up and down dale on the roof. Young boys go there and control the rains by pinching...
Even by going standards in executive suites, the sweeping, 56-ft-long room in Omaha is something special. It has marble floors, Hawaiian wood panels, French stained glass, Japanese carvings, Indian temple bells, a lavatory with walls of kangaroo hide and an abstract painting in the elevator. Leo Daly Jr. uses it to impress potential clients with the versatility of his firm. Leo Daly Co., the midwest's biggest and the nations third largest firm of engineer-architects. "My specialty," says Daly, 46, "is in not specializing...