Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice, Malraux ordered that work on a new luxury apartment building be delayed to give archaeologists a chance to probe the remnants of a prehistoric village unearthed on the site. Last year he halted construction of an important urban-renewal project in downtown Marseille and unleashed the archaeologists when power shovels uncovered massive fortifications built by Greeks during the 6th century B.C. Malraux has now struck again, using his influence to prevent the Rhône River town of Vienne from building a secondary school over what may well be the most important Roman ruins ever discovered in France...
...most successful modern users of the camera as an aid to painting are the U.S.'s Howard Kanovitz and Britain's Malcolm Morley, both of whom use photography as a way to probe that old Platonic question. Says Kanovitz: "Certainly the film Rashomon and, more recently, the Warren Commission report illustrate how impossible it is to 'tell it the way it really is.' " Adds Morley: "Realism hasn't even been dealt with in the 20th century. The Ashcan School were all preachers, and pop artists are busy trying to make their painting abstract...
...hall. To spare himself the long trip, Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer set up shop aboard a $400,000 oceanography mother ship, the Undersea Hunter, moored in Indian Creek, directly across from the Fontainebleau. In addition to carrying a 22-ft.-long, four-man yellow submarine designed to probe the ocean floor, the mother ship boasts a news ticker, color TV, telephones, air conditioning and staterooms...
Harvard faculty committees aren't much more successful or efficient than less star-studded one. Attendance at committee meetings was often sparse. Few members were persistent enough to probe all possible angles of the question. Instead of growing out of long dialogues, the committee's report came from Beecher's drafts...
...rates, controversial policy cancellations and slow payment of claims. Some critics demand more federal regulation, along with a radical overhaul of the whole system. A Senate subcommittee has started a root-andbranch investigation of auto insurers; President Johnson has ordered the Department of Transportation to make a two-year probe...