Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cache in the Shaft. Most original ol the art-nouveau architects was Spain's Antoni Gaudi, but recognition was slow in coming. Two decades ago, Art Historian Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Pioneers of Modern Design, relegated Gaudi to two footnotes in the appendix. Eight years later, Pevsner recanted, saying, "He is the only genius produced by art-nouveau." Gaudi, who urged that "we must not imitate or reproduce Gothic but continue it," based his studies on Catalan architecture and plant forms in nature. The results, scholars now recognize, intuitively anticipated many of today's shell structures, including...
...Gaudi to help restore the building to Gaudi's original design: "It is a continuing surprise and delight to me, so rich in detail that I find something new each time I visit it." The recent discovery of a long-lost cache of Gaudi drawings in a factory shaft may enable Harnden and his associates to enrich the crypt with still more Gaudi delights...
...Richard Daugherty explained, a bulldozer they were using scraped bare some bone fragments. Forgetting their survey, they began digging carefully at the site and uncovered other bones, some animal and some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that the early human was similar to modern man and had died around...
...Those needs were modest-such things as a pair of dry socks and some writing material. TIME provided the tiny pencil, which the Christian Reform Laymen's League included in 200,000 packets to Viet Nam. Surprisingly, the minipencil is serving purposes far beyond postcard writing. Its wooden shaft, wrote one Marine, is being used to clean the hard-to-get-at rifle sights, while the graphite helps sliding parts of the M16. Hearing of this, the volunteer group asked TIME for more of them to be included in a second shipment. This week another 200,000 pencils...
James Earl Ray had fled the Missouri State Penitentiary in April 1967, hiding in a big wooden breadbox to get from the prison bakery to the outside world. He had twice before tried to escape, once placing a dummy in his bed and hiding in a ventilator shaft; once he broke a makeshift ladder trying to scale the wall...