Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Stone. The two women looked around the room. In one corner of the ceiling was a jagged hole, and on the floor lay a black, glb. stone. If it had just arrived from interplanetary space, Mrs. Hodges could claim to be the first fully authenticated case of a human injured by a meteorite.*She had no time for wild surmise. Neighbors came flooding into the house, followed by cops and more neighbors. A doctor rushed her to his office, X-rayed her space-inflicted injuries and found no broken bones. But she had bruises on her hip and hand...
NEGRO HOUSING PROJECT in New Orleans will be one of the biggest and most luxurious Negro developments in Southern history. Pontchartrain Park Homes, Inc. will soon start work on a $15 million, two-year project to build 1,000 modern homes around a community park with an 18-hole golf course, swimming pool and stadium. Price range, which reflects Negroes' improved economic standing: $10,000 to $25,000, with many houses including air conditioning...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...serious attempt to find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera, Goddess of Fertility, and patron of Paestum. Jars and vases held solidified honey, sacred to Hera (see opposite page). It is likely that no one had entered that shrine for at least...
...With automobile fatalities running at an annual rate of [almost] 40,000, General Motors comes up with a 260-h.p. motor in its 1955 models. For what purpose?-so the pinheaded, slaphappy . . . drivers can have bigger and gorier smashups? The U.S. needs high-powered automobiles like it needs a hole in the head...