Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians...
...Pants" Johnson rides to Washington, once again the Byzantine intrigues of the Communists and of the non, near-and anti-Communists are uncoiled. One learns that Karl Marx had whiskers and that Roosevelt looked poorly in 1944, that Communists are devious and that-etc. It would tax the attention span of a U.N. stenographer...
...Munro "should have the best team it's ever had this fall," had another scare, nipping what was supposed to be a weak Yale elevan, 2-1. And the Bruins, with one of the most powerful attacks in the country, were shut out except for a two-minute span in the second quarter when they scored both goals...
...rail and road access to the port of Haiphong so that incoming supplies will not reach the war zone. For the third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate was probably right: smoke from the fire rose more...
...Says Los Angeles Sculptor Edward Keinholz, whose own "environments" of Nevada brothels and backstairs abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers warns: "It is easy to be deluded by camp followers. The public is buying a lot of bad copies of truly creative work...