Word: hut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Communist guerrillas sneaked into a jungle hut west of Saigon, lopped off the heads of seven peasants who had informed on them, and left the heads impaled on sticks beside the hut. Terrorists also beheaded five rural officials, beat three youths to death with hammers. Deaths in this "little war" now average...
...recreation hut in Squaw Valley's Olympic Village was a wall-to-wall mob scene of vividly dressed, ruddy-cheeked young athletes, gathered there from 30 countries for the 1960 Winter Olympics. In their midst a smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing. As two waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete...
Died. Walter Hubert Baddeley, 65, Anglican Bishop of Blackburn, who as a missionary in the South Seas (Bishop of Melanesia) during World War II bundled his charges on Florida Island (in the Solomons) off to the hills when the Japanese arrived, set up a leaf hut as his episcopal seat and ran a hospital and leper colony until the Americans landed; in Clayton-le-Dale, England...
...These are men like any other man," says Toolpusher Doug Parker. "They learn quickly and work well." The Eskimos have full acceptance in the two bunkhouses, the mess hall and recreation hut, where "Little Joe" Panuktuluk, 19, is undisputed card-trick and cribbage champ. Formerly a reindeer herder, Panuktuluk aches to go south. He speaks often of the world he has never seen: "The long highways, the buildings with rooms that go up and down, the cows and horses and the people that are too many to count...
...more dachas inside his high walls ("almost a feudal castle, lacking only the moat and drawbridge"), hired a caretaker couple full time, and made thousands of rubles by renting out porches, rooms and cottages to dachniks at excessive prices. A dacha need not be grand: a peasant's hut qualifies as a dacha when one room or a veranda is rented to a summer tourist...