Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police with submachine guns were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
Struggle for the Roof of the World...
...place Senators and the National Football League's lowly (one win, twelve losses, one tie) Redskins, D.C. Stadium seats 50,000 for football, 43,500 for baseball. It is as comfortable as it is big. A cantilevered upper deck eliminates the need for view-obstructing posts, and a roof shields 60% of the seats from sun and rain. Each seat is a minimum of 20 in. wide (v. the standard 17 in.), and many are thoughtfully equipped with outlets for electric blankets. Scattered strategically about the stadium are 45 rest rooms and 27 concession stands. There...
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...
Students too seemed sure that it was "an inside job." The flasks were being stored on a fairly obscure roof facing the back of Mallinckrodt, reached only by crawling through a window from the chemistry lab. "Someone had to know they were there," hinted a girl student dramatically...