Word: walls
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Among other projects attesting to TIME's lively interest in education are special student editions and rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...
...England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into supermarkets, restaurants, executive suites and department stores...
Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and in 1928 launched Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.-a mutual fund which cost its holders close to $300 million when the price plummeted from $232 to $1.75 per share. Catchings resigned, later headed Muzak Corp. and retired last year as president of Concord Fund...
...Diana Sands played the protagonist in Robert Lowell's Phaedra with Philadelphia's Theater of the Living Arts and failed to be consumed by passion, as in Joan she fails to be consumed by faith. Like the founders of the Negro Ensemble, she has publicly deplored "the wall" most Negro performers face. With indubitable talent and spunk, she has proved that the wall can be scaled. Yet she is encouraging herself, or being encouraged, as a Negro, to attempt parts for which she currently lacks the size, range and maturity as an actress...
Harvard's other players made short work of their matches. Anil Nayar, number one, put on a display of three-wall drop shots and deep power drives that dizzied his opponent...