Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like an Oyster. The church cost $1,250.000 (Wright's fee: $137,500). As with another latter-day Wright design, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, criticisms are harsh. To some observers it suggests a stadium, to others a brooding oyster or a flying saucer. "I can't decide whether it looks like it just got here or like it's just about to leave," muttered one viewer. Another critic grumbles that it is "too small for a bullfight, too large for a cockfight...
...Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster...
With Leander Perez, defiance is a way of life. In 1943, when Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones appointed a Plaquemines sheriff against Perez' wishes, Perez mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
Poll Watcher. At a total cost of $30 million, PACD has raised rice production through village-scaled irrigation projects to as high as 5,000 Ibs. per acre (nearly five times the Philippine average), re-seeded fishermen's depleted oyster beds, supplied farmers with 10,000 brood sows and helped set up barrio councils to promote self-government. In the process, PACD has made itself the Philippines' most effective weapon against the still-present Communist-led Hukbalahap guerrillas, whose strength has always rested on the misery of the islands' 19 million barrio residents...
...working future millionaire in need of a shave: he attacks himself twice a day with one of eleven electric razors. Standing 5 ft. 10 in., weighing 150 lbs., he eats little, smokes seldom, drinks ''only with chicks." On his wrist, on a single band, are two monstrous, oyster-shaped gold watches worth $610 apiece. At one time he had 40 watches. A friend, visiting him one day, picked up a magazine and out fell a $300 chronometer...