Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most of Adams House was out on sick call yesterday morning, including the Master and Senior Tutor. Although dining hall officials doubted that food caused the intestinal illness, there was a possibility that it resulted either from the water or the combination of foods served on Wednesday night...
...ever had." Nonetheless, Mississippi Democrat John Williams sternly announced that his House Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics would start hearings this week on the crash. Republican Steven Derounian of New York and Thomas J. Love, Massachusetts Democrat, called for an investigation. FAA inspectors sealed the four engines under water before hauling them up for study. Indiana's Democratic Senator Vance Hartke called again for grounding the Electra. Egged on by nervous newsmen who must travel with him on his campaign, Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson switched from an Electra to a Convair. Rumors spread that many large companies...
...tend the flowers and clean away the scraps of paper; no mob had thought to topple Albert or the big figure of Leopold II that stands before the Parliament building. Léopoldville has no visible revenue, but somehow the lights functioned, the garbage was collected and the water ran normally. Government departments were hardly functioning, but to the utter amazement of Manhattan financiers, a check arrived at Dillon. Read & Co.'s Wall Street offices from the Congo's Central Bank paying in full the $393,750 interest due Oct. 1 on Congo bonds...
...courtyards that seemed to fit inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned a dome to shelter Manhattan, and Hans Poelzig a towering, terraced metropolis reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
...fewer raw onions, let her abstain from onions, let her learn to abhor them," he implores, after listening in tears to his harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron who will not bathe ("Imagine finding yourself naked in a puddle of water!"), a telephone operator who like most of her sisters answers a driving call of curiosity, and virile fishermen who give silent Spanish lessons to gringas. Perhaps most appealing is the all-too-friendly girl who tells Father Roque in the confessional, "Self-denial? But, Father, don't deprive...