Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday evening Lyndon staged a "Salute to Congress," his appreciation of the most productive session in its history. As it turned out, the House was too busy producing to adjourn in time, so that the curtain was 1½ hours late, and the State Department auditorium only one-fourth filled-most audibly with fuming congressional wives...
...congress that the United States will stay in Vietnam until some honorable settlement can be arranged, he got a standing ovation. Not one of the 50 or so people who picketed Humphrey's speech was a congress delegate, and a plan to stage a walkout from the auditorium failed utterly...
...result, Atlanta has: public schools desegregated through all twelve grades; an $18 million stadium home for its first major league baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (who will move from Milwaukee at season's end); a $9,000,000 auditorium-exhibition hall complex; a $14.5 million freeway link between the downtown area and the airport (fifth busiest in the U.S.) that cuts driving time 23 minutes; 20,000 new jobs yearly since 1962, which is double what Allen was shooting for and has given Atlanta the lowest unemployment rate of any major U.S. city. Only his dream of a rapid...
...started to grumble. Why, they sniffed, that Eisenhower boy lived here only three months before the family moved up to Abilene. And hadn't one of the papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium after him. But would Ike still attend? He'd be delighted. And so were the townspeople when the general arrived, flashing the famous grin and sternly telling young people to respect law and order. "The nicest part," said a woman who has lived there 76 years, "is he never...
...studio project on the Right Bank that will eventually provide 300 air-conditioned ateliers for artists of all sorts. Ceilings are low, but musicians' quarters come equipped with upright pianos, painters' rooms are furnished with easels, floors are sculptor-proof. Under construction are a library, bar, restaurant, auditorium and exposition hall. Rent is only $55 a month. But foreign governments or corporations must lay out $16,000 per studio, reserving the right to name their resident artists. Whether such space will stimulate art is anybody's guess−but some of the first tenants are already complaining...