Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most famous of Prince Franz Josef II's 1,500 oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...
...Though the amount of tritium in atmospheric water vapor over the central Atlantic and the Caribbean is usually from eight to ten times the quantity in sea water, the concentration in the samples Ostlund collected decreased as the plane approached the storm center. In the vapor in the cloud wall surrounding the storm's eye, for example, the tritium content was only twice as high as in sea water...
Fudge & Toys. Wall Street's world of investment and brokerage offers an unbounded potential for young men who are willing to put up with low pay and long hours at the start. Most of the senior partners in the nation's top investment banking houses are millionaires; their salaries run about three times as high as those of officers in competing commercial banks. Hundreds of young men have ridden to riches in the long postwar bull market. John F. Donahue, 41, a West Pointer and former SAC pilot, did so well selling mutual funds door-to-door that...
...house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses a 30-acre park...
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, wrote Robert Frost, and in this novel that something is the Pennsylvania Dutch peasantry on the farm lands and the immigrant Irish and Polish serfs in the coal "patches" upriver. A farm boy, intent on exploring the grounds, dies impaled on the spiked wall, and George bugs out to New York, leaving his lawyer to slip $500 in hush money to the family. Why does a man like this want to be a gentleman? It seems that "becoming a gentleman" was an obsession that Father Abraham had developed and that...