Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend, he was buried in a great cement hole, his arms and legs tied with cables, but broke free and got away, now lives in a royal palace in Paris. They call him Jesus Matswa, cherish photomontages that show Jesus chatting amiably with Matswa on the Mount of Olives. More recently, Matswanists have put together an unlikely trinity comprising Matswa...
...than 15 years, a woman and six children whose entire world was a large, dark room surrounded by gutters filled with filthy green water. The mother had only two clay pots for cooking, a few plates, no silverware. Candles were the only light at night; the bathroom was a hole in one wall. Wooden tables were used as beds, stacked one atop the other like double-decker berths. The man who kept his family thus imprisoned was Rafael Perez Hernandez, 54, husband and father, by profession a purveyor of homemade rat poison...
Curses & Scars. As the children grew up, their view of the outside world-except on extremely rare occasions-was through a hole in the iron door less than an inch in diameter. All day the family worked to help father make poison-from 5 a.m. to dusk. The youngsters got no schooling; their vocabularies were not more than 300 words, and they cursed as a matter of course. Their necks were dotted with small scars where their father had pressed his. knife a bit too hard instilling discipline: no whimpering for more food, no asking...
Died. Edmund Newton Harvey, 71, Princeton biology professor who developed the world's foremost laboratory for the study of bioluminescence, documented his discovery (Living Light, Bioluminescence) that light emitted by certain organisms (fireflies, squid) indicates their growth and functioning; of a heart attack; in Woods Hole, Mass. In 1931, in collaboration with New York Banker Alfred Lee Loomis, Harvey invented the centrifuge microscope, which makes cell division observable by whirling the cells at a rate of 20,000 revolutions a minute...
Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...