Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army, whose most fanatic members, their fight against France won with independence, moved south last year to the borders of the areas still controlled by Spain. Goulimine's mayor, the governor of nearby Tiznit, and most other Moroccan officials around Ifni are former Liberation Army leaders. On the wall of the governor's office was a map of "Greater Morocco" showing not only Ifni but also all of Spanish West Africa and French Mauritania as part of King Mohammed V's realm...
...Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies...
Conquest: On the crest of an urgent new interest in science, CBS this week launched a new $1,000,000 series, ten hour-long shows spread over this season and next, sponsored by Monsanto Chemical Co. "to help penetrate the wall that separates the man in the laboratory from the rest of us." The opening show put the viewer's eye to microscopes that revealed viruses and, through time-lapse photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons...
Actually, Silberstein's renewed stock buying was regarded by Wall Street as less a new take-over attempt than a desperate move to save his skin. As a recent Penn-Texas report to the Securities and Exchange Commission made clear, Silberstein has "Blundered into one of the weirdest financial squeezes in Wall Street history. To buy his F-M stock, Silberstein had to scour the U.S. for loans, some carrying interest rates and other costs totaling 15%, and almost all due within a year. Just to get some of the loans from "24 banks in various parts...
Only about 15% of the stock is now still being traded publicly. Wall Streeters guessed that Silberstein would have to sell off more Penn-Texas companies to get the money to buy the stock to support the price, while he shopped for a buyer for his F-M holdings. But Bob Morse apparently had no intention of letting him get out of the bind in that fashion, hoped to squeeze him even harder. Morse had no great worry that Silberstein could find a buyer for his Morse holdings, even if the court permitted him to sell, because the buyer would...