Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crosser and finger tapper-with a steady stream of generals, vice presidents, scientists and budgeteers. After hours, his social life is relaxed and seldom formal. Despite his appreciation of good food and wine, he eats and drinks sparingly. His house lacks a bomb shelter but boasts a wine vault...
...expedition finished excavating a great Persian stepped monument, perhaps the one referred to by the ancient historian Xenophon as the sepulchre of Abradatas and his faithful wife Pantheia. On the banks of the torrent Pactolus, the archaeologists also uncovered an Early Christian vault with wall paintings of birds and flowers...
...came as no surprise that the freshman broad jump record was demolished with a 23 ft., 10 in. vault. And by the end of the nine-game freshman soccer season, Ohiri had found the nets 36 times. "We don't keep track of those records," said Baaron B. Pittenger, director of Sports Information, "but you can bet that's a record. Nobody scores 36 goals in a season...
Alarmed by the mounting wave of art thefts on both sides of the Atlantic, Novelist Somerset Maugham, 87, moved his collection of 46 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings out of his Riviera villa and into a Marseilles bank vault for the duration of a scheduled visit to Lon . Sighed Maugham's Man Friday, Secretary Alan Searle: "Art has become more of an anxiety than a pleasure...
...Touch. Each of them has other interests and is anything but a campus misfit with a guitar. Bob Burnett, 21, friendly, eager, misleadingly slight of build, is Wesleyan's pole-vault champion (his record: 12 ft. S in.), vice president of the student government, and an outstanding scholar. Son of a Boston investment broker who also runs a cemetery in Mystic, Conn., he is majoring in government and wants to be a lawyer. Last summer he went to Nigeria under a program called Operation Crossroads, showed Nigerians how to make cement blocks and helped them build a community center...