Word: adee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill, giant cranes swing slabs of gleaming marble onto the façade of a new, $70 million House Office Building. On Independence Avenue, Government girls are still learning their way around the corridors of "FOB 6,"* an ultramodern Federal Office Building housing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Near tranquil Thomas Circle, huge holes in the ground mark the sites for two multimillion-dollar hotels. In the nation's capital, these and scores of other scenes bear testimony to a dramatic fact: Washington, D.C., is getting the greatest face lifting in its history...
...matter of crucial importance. S. & P.'s professional opinions carry near-Biblical weight with untold thousands of investors-and particularly with the amateurs who have thronged into the market since World War II. So avidly do they seek S. & P. counsel that in the last dec ade annual sales of the company's services and newsletters have more than dou bled, hitting better than $13 million. Profits, jumping even more sensationally, have gone up 68% to $1,298,000 in the last four years...
...city that in five years has integrated its libraries, public buses, golf courses and taxicabs, with department- and variety-store lunch counters to follow school integration. Negro pressure triggered these changes, just as two Negro students entering the University of Georgia last winter helped to topple the entire fac,ade of Georgia's once rigid state segregation laws. But equally important was the graceful acceptance of the inevitable by white Georgians. Their turnabout must be accounted a milestone in the history of the U.S. South...
...policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three floors just to be sure. But two or three hours later, the thieves somehow climbed up the lighted, ornate façade of the museum,*sneaked through a small window on the second floor, spirited away six canvases from one gallery and two from another while Mme. Martial-Salme and her husband slept a few yards away. Wailed the show's organizer. Leo Marchutz, next day: "Cezanne would be furious...
Beneath the façade of order, the Dominican Republic left by Trujillo is a political vacuum, and its economy is near collapse. As he grew older, Trujillo embarked on grandiose projects of no merit, lost $35 million on an international fair that flopped in 1956, drained away another $50 million for arms in the space of two years. Trujillo compounded his growing troubles by a foolish and abortive plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt in Caracas last June. As a result, Trujillo was ostracized by all the other nations of the hemisphere...