Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mexico's elemental magic was skillfully woven into the museum by its architect, Pedro Ramírez Váquez, 46, a team of 40 specialists, and hundreds of artists in wood and stone. Galleries surround an airy grand patio, roofed by an aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts...
...with ram induction...
...elections last week for the first time in seven years, ostensibly to choose a constituent assembly to write a new constitution for the country. In reality it was to legalize the strong-arm rule of Colonel Osvaldo López, 44, the ambitious air force officer who ousted President Ramón Villeda Morales in October...
...Further, as was shown in Korea, masses of manpower can repair roads and makeshift bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready again the next day." Moreover, the North Vietnamese funnel much aid to the Viet Cong along routes far removed from Laos. Cambodia is now a big supply depot for Communist men and equipment moved by sea from North Viet Nam. It remains to be seen...
Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...