Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting...
Court tennis has changed little since it was played by monks in French monasteries some 700 years ago. and the court itself still reproduces many of the original hazards. The opening in the wall called the dedans might have been a water trough, and the player who can hit a ball into it wins the point. The serve is rolled along the side roof into the opponent's court, comes off it with an erratic spin. The oddly shaped racquets have changed little in design over hundreds of years. The game combines the strokes of lawn tennis with...
...time his 70th birthday rolls around in April, Benton expects to be attacking the wall of the Truman Library. Says he: "I am going to take all the time I can get to finish these, so I won't fall on my face. But I'll deliver them, all right...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
Nobody knew much about Alexander L. Guterma when he arrived in Wall Street five years ago. But he quickly showed himself such an expert in frenzied finance that he got control of F. L. Jacobs Co. (auto parts maker), Bon Ami Co. (scouring powder), Hal Roach Studios (Gale Storm Show), and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last December Guterma's empire began to crumble...