Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, after surveying the crumbling west side, engineers urged that it, too, be rebuilt immediately. Architect Stewart, 75, a onetime Congressman and engineer who has neither an architectural degree nor a license, proposed that the whole length of the west wall be encased in marble, extended as much as 70 ft. to make room for a huge cafeteria overlooking the mall. Cost: $24 million to $31 million...
Some take heart from the considerable increase in West German trade with the East, arguing that the way to bring the Berlin Wall tumbling down and to move toward reunification is to revitalize the incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled...
Some of the findings might not pertain to the U.S., but Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...
Alice Sycamore (Rosemary Harris) that her native clan is prodigiously eccentric until Tony Kirby (Clayton Corzatte) of the Wall Street Kirbys proposes to her. The Kirby family crest is the stuffed shirt, but it is lofted in surrender to the free-souled Sycamores after a hilariously impromptu dinner and an even more impromptu night in jail...
...Military Medicine in Bangkok last month, Dr. Richard A. Finkelstein of the SEATO Medical Research Laboratory suggested that it might be possible to make another type of vaccine. This would work against a chemical poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage in the intestinal wall. This impairment in turn cause cholera's devastating symptom: the most severe diarrhea known to man, in which an adult may lose up to 15 quart a day while running little or no fever...