Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother and a couple of students in the 18-room Tudor mansion that once belonged to the Wilson meatpacking family. "The rooms are virtually soundproof. My mother can be playing television full blast and I'll never hear it. When the annual community ball is given in our ballroom, Mother doesn't hear...
Children are in fact the most excellent and obvious reason for the trend. Dr. and Mrs. John Mumma of Bellingham, Wash., have nine, but there is plenty of running, jumping, dancing and shouting room in their magnificent 1903 mansion. The 30-foot-high ballroom is now more of a gym than anything else, but, says Mumma, "it will pay for itself through eight home weddings for the girls." The three children of Harvard Professor Jean-Claude Martin were comfortable in a six-room house, but they are blooming in the 17-room baroque relic of the 1870s that he bought...
...decencies are legion-but not without a struggle. "I cannot ask you to kiss me while you are still married to the church," Romy purrs, "but in Vienna it is a sin even for a married man not to dance the waltz." And Actress Schneider makes twice-around-the-ballroom seem a soul-shattering experience for any male...
...recommendation last February, the Harvard Council suggested that a union include a lunchroom, space for student organizations, a used book store, a ballroom, rooms for study dates, a swimming pool and squash courts...
...free-swinging attack on Jack Kennedy, his Administration, his family, his cronies and his family's cronies. G.O.P. National Chairman William Miller was the chief swinger. "Do you recall," he cried, "Sinatra types infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Eisenhower days? Or twisting in the historic East ballroom? Or wild swimming-pool antics shocking to all the country? Or all-night parties in foreign lands? No, you do not recall such things, because from 1953 to 1961 there was a sense of propriety and fitness and decorum and dignity which Americans have always expected, and which they received from...