Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loot for Rome. The kouros was found in 1959, when workmen in Piraeus, the seaport of ancient and modern Athens, dug up a busy street to repair a sewer. The statues lay on a mosaic floor and were covered with black dirt mixed with ashes and broken roof tiles, indicating that they had been buried in the wreckage of a fire. Deep among them the diggers found a coin that was issued in 87 or 86 B.C.-which strongly suggested that the kouros must have been covered over about that time...
Money Makes Money. Born in Austria and raised in Baltimore, Weinberg quit school in sixth grade to help out in his father's auto repair shop. This left him short on the niceties of syntax (for ex ample, he says of former Fifth Avenue Coach Chairman Howard Cullman: "He was entrusted of these stockholders with their money and he done as chairman a very bad job"). But Weinberg is a near genius at numbers...
...past few years, MTA operations have extended farther and farther to the south, and many interested people have hoped that the Authority might be anxious to relocate its storage and repair facilities at Codman Sq. in Dorchester. But the MTA will not be forced to--and probably will not be interested in--moving from Bennett St. unless it can take over the Old Colony railroad line and extend its operations to the South Shore...
...Clernon has suggested in recent statements that the MTA may soon settle this difficulty, but Tyler is scarcely so optimistic. He stresses, in fact, that the Authority must not only find and build a practical and extensive system of new yards but erect and equip a new repair shop as well before it can even consider selling the Bennett St. property...
...palatial repair bill was only the costliest irritation in one of Britain's rare quarrels between the monarchy and the masses. Flying off on a three weeks' vacation in Antigua, the princess and her husband traveled by commercial airliner-but had the entire first-class section barred to other passengers. Commented Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express: "Another little touch of apartheid to ensure that the democratic idea is not carried too far." Britons were also irked by reports that a new hotel abuilding near Kensington Palace has been forced to reduce its height by several floors...