Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jagannath is 6 ft. tall, with a flat-topped black face, round white eyes, a diamond painted on the forehead, a mouth set in a wide led smile. His brother, Balabhadra, is 7 ft. tall, with a white face, a rounded skull and oval eyes; sister Subhadra is only 5 ft. high, with a yellow, pinched face that gives her a hungry look. Making a new set of idols to replace the worn-out trio at least once every 25 years is a tricky business. First a neem tree must be found, in which no bird is nesting...
...Mine." and since his death in 1891, dozens of adventurers carrying creased, crude maps have gone after the treasure. None of them found it, but more than 30 died trying. In 1931 a retired Government worker set out for Lost Dutchman's. Months later, his bleached skull was found, pierced by a bullet hole. A miner named Williamson, another named Lamb, a magazine writer named Scuelebtz, all followed maps into the Superstition Mountain fastness-and were never seen again. Only two years ago a prospector left his campsite in the middle of a meal and disappeared forever...
...ghastly accident. And this changed attitude is not all on the European side. A month before, a terrorist was spotted before he could explode a bomb in a crowded square; he fled with a mob in hot pursuit, and was caught and nearly killed as people banged his skull against a wall. Remarkably, most of the mob were Moslems...
...strokes-accidents in the brain's blood supply-are only less common than heart attacks, and can cause more severe crippling. Dr. DeBakey tackled these, installed artery grafts in cases where the blood stoppage had occurred at an accessible site below the skull (TIME...
After Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa threatened a general strike if Congress passes a labor reform bill (TIME, June 1) Editorial Cartoonist Jim Dobbins, 34, of the Sunday Boston Herald (circ. 293,904), drew the tough trucker as a club-carrying cave man guarding a skull-littered tunnel labeled "Truck Route, U.S.A...