Word: padlocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest hit by the drought are the farmers of the New Territories, who desperately need spring rains to save their rice and vegetable crops. Those farmers who own wells padlock them at night to foil water thieves. At week's end, the shortage had grown so serious that ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were ordered to cease taking on potable water in Hong Kong "to avoid further drain on the local water supply...
...1930s, Harvard's Graduate School of Education was so poor in pocket and prestige that President James B. Conant was tempted to padlock it. And then, characteristically. Conant thought of upgrading its mission instead. He devised the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching program, designed to turn graduates of liberal arts colleges into teacher-scholars rather than pedagogues...
...East German police machine-gunned a mission staff car, narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every movement of the occupants. Soviet soldiers could leave if they wished, said Clarke, but they would be tailed every inch of the way by armed U.S. troops. Two days later...
...next exploit, a lawsuit charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest, was a convenient cover for the most audacious escape in policemen's memory. He got outside accomplices to smuggle him a padlock in the Law Courts, went to the toilet with two guards. When they removed his handcuffs outside. Alfie bundled them into the lavatory, snapped the padlock onto screw eyes inserted on the door by his pals, and vanished in crowded Fleet Street. Though he was recaptured at the airport five hours later. Hinds slipped out of Chelmsford Prison in less than a year and returned...
...else but Artzybasheff could capture the hopeless, despairing mood of East Germany's captive peoples with as simple a device as a chain and a spectral padlock. The compelling message of this cover picture is plain, and needs no words of explanation. (MRS.) ALICE A. PAULSON...