Word: antebellum
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...York Democrats on hand. In Cleveland, where the candidates addressed the National Urban League conference, the mostly black audience offered attentive applause. But in Jackson, a throng of 4,000 waited in a drizzly rain for the pair and, when Mondale and Ferraro appeared on the steps of the antebellum Governor's mansion, cries of "Gerry! Gerry!" filled the air. "Do I have to worry about the South?" she asked. The answer roared back...
...several years before his half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops for business trips...
...hospital where Bryant had died, scrub-suited surgeons stepped outside with masks dangling. The cortege passed the university where Bryant had played his college football and where he coached 25 of his 38 head-coaching seasons, winning the national championship six times. Students pressed together beneath buildings whose antebellum columns were draped in black...
...Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, the U.S. cityscape shines with burnished filigree and newly painted trim on public buildings. In Albany, the senate chamber in the capitol was recently restored to its original 1880s state at a cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior of its antebellum capitol in Montgomery in 1981 for roughly $3 million, and intends to begin work on the interior next year. The exterior of Pennsylvania's legislative building is in fine shape, but a one-story plaza will be added to conform to the original building design...
...Kane spent five days with Helms at home and on the job and accompanied him to a Sunday-morning church service. Kane was treated to some BURNETT-CONTACT Southern hospitality when he joined the Senator and some of his cronies for shrimp jambalaya, poker and stories at the Raleigh antebellum mansion of North Carolina Superior Court Judge Pou Bailey. Kane found the evening "fun but unprofitable": he lost...