Word: mark
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pattern for both consisted of a head, hands, feet and six wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity; the result, a tumbling, rosy piglet of an angel...
Last week-much later than had been previously expected-the sheer momentum of the mighty but misfiring U.S. economic machine lifted the annual rate of G.N.P. over the $1 trillion-a-year mark. Despite the tarnish that inflation placed on that achievement, President Nixon appeared for ceremonies at the Commerce Department's new gross national product clock-a brightly lit and buzzing electronic gadget that ticks off the nation's estimated economic growth at the rate of $2,000 a second. Said Nixon: "We hope to keep it moving, and perhaps move it faster in the years ahead...
...Mark Faller, down a weight class at 158, Tony Rayner in his first match of the year at 167, and Richie Starr at 177 all provided points for the Crimson...
...triple jump, a relatively rare event, went to Harvard's Kevin Benjamin with a mark of 45'91/2". Terry Powlis was third in the event. Ed Nosal was far out in front winning the 35-1b. weight throw, and Tom Raskin and Baskauskas were the top two varsity pole valuators...
...well balanced squad," Hunt commented after the meet, "with some real class performers." Hunt then cited the pole valuator Jim Kleiger, who has been flirting with the 15' mark and won last night at 14', as a standout...