Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Huang Yung-sheng's local garrison concentrates on trying to keep the cash-earning flow of fruits and vegetables moving down to Hong Kong, 90 miles away. But even that job may soon become tougher as the feuding Cantonese gather stocks of arms. Only last week Peking wall posters complained that Cantonese rebels hijacked weapons from a ship bound for North Viet...
...with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police and a Guard unit led by a warrant officer indulged in an orgy of beating and bashing that lasted 45 minutes...
Bhutanese tapestries and wall paintings are a blend of Buddhism, Hinduism and Bon, the country's original cult of sorcery and spirit worship. There is little in them to distinguish today from yesterday. Works are not dated; subject matter is part of a continuous tradition handed down from monk to monk, generation to generation. Often the meaning of the centuries-old silk tapestries is obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity...
First Race, First Win. Bus (a contraction of "Buster," the nickname given him by a hospital nurse at birth) has been sailing-in dead earnest-ever since his daddy dropped him into a dinghy at five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered...
...Wall Street, 1967 may well be remembered as the year of the brokerage-house Bob Cratchits. Responding to brokers' cries that their clerical ranks were folding under the paperwork generated by this year's unprecedented pace of trading, governors of the New York Stock Exchange last week held an emergency Monday meeting, ordered a "temporary" shortening of daily trading sessions from the normal 51 hours to four hours. The shorter hours, which are scheduled to continue through this week, were matched by the Big Board's smaller Manhattan neighbor, the American Stock Exchange, as well...