Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are times, though, when Chamberlain wishes he were a little less successful-and a lot less tall. A 7-ft. man walking down the street is the kind of oddity that children point at and drunks snarl at; he has been asked "How's the weather up there?" in a dozen languages, and people have been calling him "freak" to his face all his life. He even sticks out, drawing all eyes, on a court full of huge men. Says his friend Bill Russell: "Wilt is not only very famous; he's very obvious...
...elevator operator panicked. The sight of Jackie Kennedy, elegantly coifed and exquisitely draped in a pink strapless creation, was perhaps too much for the man. In any event, his thumb froze on the STOP button, the elevator never got off the ground, and the Kennedys finally decided to walk upstairs...
...Yamasaki approached it, the vision seemed to get richer. Finally, "you go through this narrow deep gate, opening in total shadow. You emerge beyond the wall into the sharp contrast of a peaceful and silent setting, and there is the gleaming Taj Mahal in front of you. Then you walk along the fabled pools, then up a dark stairway, so narrow you have to walk sideways. Finally you emerge again into the sunlight, and the Taj is so blinding you can barely see it. But you notice as you get closer the fine details and the wonderful inlays of marble...
...barren street through a narrow opening in a high wall to find a quiet court with a lovely garden and still water; or to tiptoe through the mystery and dimness of a Buddhist temple and come upon a court of raked white gravel dazzling in the sunlight ; or to walk a narrow street in Rome and suddenly face an open square with graceful splash ing fountains." To these abstract ingredients, Yamasaki has lately added another one that is quite
However, University Information countered in a telephone interview last night, these allegations are entirely false. January is a happy month, they revealed. All over the world, all throughout history, this time of year brings joy and gladness to hearts in every walk of life...