Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making for quite a while. They had not been seen together-at least in public-since last March, when fire badly damaged the Governor's Mansion in Albany. After Tod awakened Nelson by pounding on the door of his adjoining bedroom, they escaped through windows to a porch roof. While the mansion was being repaired, Rocky checked into an Albany hotel alone. Tod summered at Seal Harbor, he at the Venezuelan ranch. Since then, Rocky has appeared at scores of ceremonial functions; Tod showed up at none...
...hotter than the fire"). Like everything else in Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab up a garden hose, but was unabashedly just...
...song-promoting tours as far away as Japan, he is mobbed by teen-age nuts of all races. In Puerto Rico, when frenzied admirers besieged him in a department store, police popped him into an oversized box and carried it to the store's roof, where a helicopter took him to safety...
...Russian, Hindus concludes, live in a society built upon a strong ideological foundation. Economical and institutional walls do tumble here and there, and others are torn down and rebuilt. Having no rigid structure, their society is-as yet- a house without a roof...
...Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each other's wrappings with ripples of humor, glints of malice and a passionate alternating...