Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the town seemed happy with the mayor's decision, the gown was not. Alan C. Rankin, president of Indiana State University, was disturbed because his burgeoning school was encroaching on the Tenderloin. Brand-new high-rise dormitories now stand across the street from battered old brownstones that house the brothels. He was further irritated by the local conviction that students account for a substantial amount of the prostitutes' business. Rankin declared: "My position is, let's enforce the law," and, with the school paper's support, he began pressuring the mayor to clean...
SALLY OF THE Tassle used to hang around Scollay Square. Harvard professors still half-consciously desire her attractively active navel. But Scollary Square is now Government Center Plaza. It has a brand new blue and green MBTA, the John F. Kennedy building, and the new City Hall...
...breathe art, even though most of them cannot afford to cover their walls with it (especially the many art students and part-time art teachers). Thus they are accustomed to staring earnestly at even the looniest creations. Remarks like "Is this some sort of a put-on?" instantly brand anyone as an outsider...
Divided Community. The Nixon brand of official devotions has stirred both thoughtful and frivolous tongues. "The Administration that prays together stays together," goes one current Washington jest. More seriously, the capital's religious community is divided over the issue of Nixon-style Sunday services at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...White House is the Nixons' home, and like all first families they have quickly put their brand on it. White tie is back for formal occasions. Hard liquor was nowhere to be found at last week's diplomatic reception; the guests were served champagne and church-social punch. During the past eight years, the White House was a slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar...