Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left were stainless-steel warming counters, on his right a large ice-making machine. Taped on one wall was a hand-lettered sign: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. At the far end of the ice-making machine stood a man with a gun. Later, a witness was to say that the young man had been there for some time, asking if Senator Kennedy would come that way. It was no trick getting in; there was no serious attempt at security screening by either the hotel or the Kennedy staff...
...being cleaned and restored by the conservation department. Others are on loan to the Harvard Houses. In exchange for the privilege of borrowing from other museums for special exhibits like the Degas monotypes, the Fogg lends out works to other museums, and it has to pull paintings off the wall to make room for its own special exhibits and course displays...
Someone had thrown up a wall against the future, and suddenly 1968 was snatched away. Suddenly it became June, and there you were with the war that you told everyone you hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...
...among the musty antiquities of Assyrian Hall in the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Eye-popping red, blue and yellow paints are splashed inside the glass showcases; a lettered wheel whirls out breezy explanations in art nouveau type. Topping off the extravaganza is a large wall map, lit up by flickering red neon tubing. It is the kind of show that conservative diggers dismiss with a scornful epithet: "Pop Archaeology...
Cambridge University Physiologists Richard Gardner and Robert Edwards reported in Nature that they mated rabbits, then from the females took fertilized egg cells that had already grown into tiny embryos but had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall. They placed each embryo under a microscope, cut a tiny slit in its surrounding membrane and drew out several hundred cells with a suction pipette. The cells were then examined for the presence of sex chromatin, a substance found only in female cells. Separated into male and female groups, the embryos were next placed in a culture medium, a laboratory...