Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...small yellow house standing on a ridge overlooking Murnau, near Munich, speaks by its appearance of suffering and sorrow. The fence sags wearily, and the path leading to the front door last week lay buried under a foot-high pile of dead leaves. Yet the house is famous. It was purchased by the pioneer abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky and his onetime mistress, Gabriele Münter, in 1908. There, at the age of 84, Gabriele Münter still lives, an artist who is steadily gaining fame in her own right as one of the best of the German expressionists...
...gone for the adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...
Last week San Francisco hotly debated Lowell's fate. At issue: School Superintendent Harold Spears's plan to shift Lowell from its condemned building in downtown San Francisco to new quarters in a middle-income district-and slash its "outside" students to 40% of enrollment. "If you pile up all your top students in one place," said Superintendent Spears, "you're hurting the city as a whole. We believe in equality of education...
...Nobels. Poor boys with rich minds have long flocked to Lowell's "old brick pile" at Hayes and Masonic streets. The lure is Lowell's topflight faculty and such courses as calculus, advanced biology, five foreign languages, outstanding English composition. While 21% of San Francisco high school students as a whole go on to four-year colleges, the average for Lowell is 49%. Lowell graduates consistently win honors at Caltech, Stanford, M.I.T. and Harvard...