Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during World War II learned the art of camouflage as an army deserter. His first headline break came after his conviction for the safe job (Scotland Yard has yet to trace $90,000 worth of stolen jewelry). After Alfie slipped through locked doors and over a 20-ft. wall at Nottingham Prison, he became known as "Houdini" Hinds, spent eight happy months on the loose in Europe and Ireland, where he had set up shop as a builder-decorator when the Yard caught up with...
Along Guantánamo's fence, Castro's men are putting the final touches on their own Berlin Wall. Workers' cadres have carved a 75-yd. clearing around the base and in Iron Curtain fashion have carefully smoothed its surface in order to spot the footprints of anyone trying to escape into the base. Gangs of teen-age "Young Rebels" are painstakingly planting a "cactus curtain" of bayonet grass, a tough century plant with half-inch sawtooth barbs...
...resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn of Irish freedom in 1924. Said he last week: "I scratched my name on the wall of Cell 59, but I suppose time has erased it now." Also well remembered: the exercise yard, "where the men were executed" - a fate that Dev narrowly es caped in 1916. - General Seeger...
...homeowner who wants stereo not only from wall to wall but from basement to attic, there is the Musical-Aire system, manufactured by Chicago's Roger Mark Corp. Two special speakers are wired to home stereo amplifier, then fastened limpet-like to the ducts of the furnace-channel A to the hot-air duct, channel B to the cold-air return. Thus wherever the heat flows, music is wafted into every room as sepulchrally as the voice of Marley's ghost; the soprano trills from atop the cupboard, the tenor sings from under the bed. Price...
Natex Chairman Lawrence Huntington Taylor, 48, a veteran Wall Street broker, believes that many of the nation's more than 50,000 unlisted stock companies will flock to the Natex in hopes of getting the publicity, ease of trading, and aura of stability afforded by listing. But on opening day the new exchange listed only eight issues, most of which carried in their corporate titles such alluring words as "automated," "missiles" or "electronics"-and six of which are selling below their original offering prices...