Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped...
...next year's car and as variegated as a Mexican market scene. Near the entrance looms an impressionistic statue of ex-President Alemán which bore such an odd resemblance to Joseph Stalin (see cut) that the sculptor had to do some retouching. Within the grounds a shell-roofed cosmic-ray laboratory shows the functional influence; translucent marble towers follow the "international" style of French architect Le Corbusier; glass-studded classroom cupolas renew the familiar form of the Spanish colonial. But all bear-in color, in texture, in decoration or design-the authentic Aztec mark of Mexico...
...seat stadium was literally built like Mexico's pyramids. To have built it wholly of concrete would have created a national cement shortage. Lazo got the idea of scooping back the volcanic rubble on the site into two great mounds, and laying a concrete oval shell on the cavity between. The job, carried out in 15 months, cost about one-fourth that of a concrete stadium. And because most of the oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from reasonably near...
...mental telepathy, Godfried Bueren, 70, a West German patent attorney, never lost his amateur enthusiasm for astronomy. Finally, he announced, he had learned something that professional astronomers don't know. The sun, asserted Herr Bueren is a hot, hollow sphere, a million miles in diameter; inside its fiery shell floats a cool core, 600,000 miles thick and lush with vegetation. What's more, he had 25,000 marks ($5,945) that said he was correct about...
...modest Chicago flat, and left her with little more in the till than 400 shares of seemingly worthless stock in an oil-cracking company which her creditors wouldn't touch. Less than four years later, the oil-cracking rights were sold to Standard Oil of California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved back to the North Shore, invested grandly in Chicago real estate, made a sensational social comeback, and passed her remaining days as a patron of the arts, philanthropist, horticulturist and collector of glass dogs...