Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, cheerful town of Briare lies some hundred miles south of Paris on the Loire River. Briare boasts the largest and most modern pheasant farm in all France and a sprinkling of diverse industry: a tile factory, a plant making laboratory instruments, another producing furniture. Briare's real distinction, however, is invisible. In the past six national elections, the men and women of Briare have voted within a few percentage points of the entire French nation. To attempt to discover how Briare will vote in the April 27 referendum, TIME Correspondent John Blashill spent several days in the town...
...says, "and got to the point where I would try anything by myself. I just never considered that there were any limitations." He suspects that his parents' divorce, five years after he was born in Abilene, Texas, was behind that self-reliance. "My father was a Bible-Beltish tile setter who never drank or swore. My stepfather was a logger who gambled, drank, fought, and did just about everything else. They were total opposites, and I had to find my own way." He found it one night when he heard a fellow boarder at a Los Angeles rooming house...
...exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes...
Pennsylvania. To get into Congress in 1960, Republican Richard S. Schweiker had to buck G.O.P. pros. Now he has ousted two-term Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark. A prosperous tile manufacturer and a Schwenkfelder-a member of one of Pennsylvania's "plain" sects-Schweiker, 42, does not smoke, rarely drinks, and then only wine. A self-styled moderate, he is an outspoken civil rights champion and an earnest advocate of draft reform...
Last year's renovations included the installation of a circular room lined with bookcases and carpeted in red, the engagement of a specialist in the repair of Delft tile, and the restoration of some of the Castle's leaded glass windows, Rivaldo said. "We also bought a lot of wine," he added...