Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the number of East German escapes to the West has been cut by more than half, and the figure keeps dropping almost every month. The rest of Eastern Europe cannot boast the same success. Last year escapes from Yugoslavia, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania rose more than 20%, and so far this year they are up another...
...until 1958 did Procacci get final authorization and money to tear down the Badia's 17th century east wall. The first chisel strokes opened a hole in the inner wall no bigger than a grapefruit, just large enough for Procacci to put his hand through. The inner surface was smooth, which meant it had been frescoed. "When I saw that there was a lit tle color," he recalls, "my heart skipped a beat...
...enormous," he remembers. But the rays heralded a false dawn. Says Procacci: "When we saw that the face of the angel was missing, it broke our hearts." Procacci is convinced that the face of Mary in the Annunciation fresco that Vasari so admired was similarly cut out before the wall was covered in the 17th century...
...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...
Chief beneficiary was Hall, who held more than 400,000 shares. A Texas-born electrical engineer, since 1961 Hall expanded Hall-Sears and later Westec by buying out even smaller firms, 17 in all. He also made a Wall Street reputation as a "broadsider"-an executive who keeps his company's name in the news with a never-ending series of self-congratulatory public-relations releases...