Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ballots are secret in this election, but Ritter's support almost surely came from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Panama. Marcos Robles, Panama's president, considers the election very important, and has reportedly been making phone calls to his colleagues all over the continent. Broad hints were dropped that if Ritter doesn't get the job, the United States might run into more trouble over the Canal Zone...
...Attracted by metaphysics, but accepting no system as true," according to Andre Maurois, "Borges makes out of all of them a game for the mind." In the chaos of the universe, the power of the imagination becomes the important thing. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terris," a beneficent secret society of scholars formulates, over three centuries, an imaginary planet. The 40-volume encyclopedia describing Tlon--man's most vast undertaking--is discovered in a Memphis, Tenn., library in 1944. Tlon contains a "doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death...
...mining techniques displayed at Munich's German Museum. Back in Cologne, they bought mortar and scrounged bricks from construction sites, then placed a sand-covered ceiling over the old entrance of their excavation - to make it appear that they had filled it in. Entering the excavation through a secret door they built through the back of a cupboard, they dug farther, shoring up their excavations with brick columns and meticulously uncovering stone after stone-some of them weighing 3 tons-from the monument...
...Kefauver, 56, widow of Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A vivacious Scottish-born artist and dress designer, she traveled with her husband all through his 24-year political career, pumping thousands of hands as tirelessly as he, prompting Estes to call her "my secret weapon." After his death in 1963, she remained in Washington as art consultant to the State Department, decorating the walls of U.S. embassies around the world with American paintings...
...Secret Talks. Britain's third devaluation in 36 years was cannily crafted to cause a minimum of commotion throughout the free world. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government carefully scaled the size of its move to produce a small response. Anything more than a 15% devaluation, the British were warned in the delicate, secret negotiations that preceded it, would have impelled France, Belgium and The Netherlands to mark down their money in retaliation. Had that occurred, the resulting chain of devaluations might have ripped the world's monetary system apart, and perhaps even caused a prosperity...