Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...enter this year's sweepstakes are invited to think back over the year's newsmakers and make their own choice for Man of the Year. Those whose candidate turns out to be the same as the editors' will get a certificate of membership in the ancient and honorable Order of Contemporary Historians. Competitors should send their choice, plus name and address to: TIME Man of the Year Sweepstakes, Box 1960, New York...
Well before the inaugural overture, the U.S. Congress (which convenes 17 days before inauguration) might well be tootling along in its own jam session, reworking that ancient cowboy tune. Don't Fence...
...grimy way, has afforded millions of conventioneers a variety of pleasures, its convention facilities have grown woefully inadequate over the years. Last week the city solved that problem with the opening of a brand-new hall, the $35 million lakefront McCormick Place, "larger than the Circus Maximus of ancient Rome and more durable than the Colosseum...
...last September an intense, cigar-chomping Hong Kong art dealer bounded into the local U.S. Treasury Foreign Assets Control Office on what seemed to be a fairly routine matter. All he wanted was a license to ship a rare and ancient (1000 B.C.) bronze ax he owned to a buyer in the U.S. Throughout Hong Kong, Dealer J. D. Chen, 55, is known as a shrewd and canny man, but that day his tongue ran away with...
...stories in this collection are first-rate, and in one or two cases triteness successfully holds out against insight. But they all build on the constants in human experience. In Success Story, for instance, an ancient fellow approaches a park bench. "Then he turned himself carefully round; bringing into the spring sunlight, pale as a primrose, his dun face, hollow-cheeked and dry; the great orbits of his sunk eyes; the long nose fallen at the tip; his white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads . . . A string of muscle jerked in the shadow of the cheekbone." His success...