Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Site. After working for a while near Building B, the diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...
...taking illustration courses by mail. He worked in a typewriter factory at night to leave his days free for sketching from nature in the East Hartford meadows along the Connecticut River. At 33, he married a 20-year-old girl he met in the next-door studio in Gloucester, Mass., Commercial Artist Sally Michel, who now draws for the New York Times Magazine. The couple set up housekeeping in Manhattan's Lincoln Square, but Avery's heart belonged to the country. In the summer the two, later accompanied by their daughter March, set up easels in such places...
...partners began mass production of their Hula Hoop, and a dozen companies quickly imitated the Hula Hoop (the name could be registered, but the hoop could not be patented) and cut into Wham-O's monopoly...
Died. George Fingold, 49, attorney general of Massachusetts, Republican nominee for governor in the coming November elections; of a heart attack; in Concord, Mass. The new nominee is onetime Massachusetts house of representatives Speaker Charles Gibbons, 57, who irritated his colleagues last spring when he refused to become "a sacrificial lamb" by running for U.S. Senator against John Kennedy...
Some men died quietly from wounds or exhaustion. Scores drank sea water and died in agony. The living fought to tear the life jackets from the dead. (Some did not even wait for the dying to die.) There were mass hallucinations: there was an island with a hotel, and somebody was telephoning but the hotel was full. Still, some threw off their life jackets and swam "to the island" and to their deaths...