Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...columnist occupies Wicker's old office at the paper's Washington bureau ("liberal ghosts in every corner"), but thinks up many of his columns at home, a 20-room, brick Colonial in Chevy Chase, Md. He lives there with his wife Helene, a former British model and pianist he met in New York in 1962, and their two children. Tall, relaxed and balding, Safire, 47, collects rare books and knows his way down a wine list. He batted out Full Disclosure in the mornings, without missing any of his twice-weekly columns. "This is my fifth book [first...
GREENSVILLE CO. SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE, WHERE PROMOTION IS BASED ON ACHIEVEMENT. So proclaims a sign posted outside the small, red brick headquarters of the superintendent of schools for Greensville County, Va. (pop. 16,000). Inside sits Sam Owen, a folksy, pipe-smoking administrator who four years ago announced that he was fed up with handing out "rubber diplomas" to high school graduates who could barely read or write. Greensville is one of the poorest counties in Virginia, and at the time the 3,700 stu dents, 65% of them black, in its integrated school system ranked in the bottom third...
...notorious Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence in Italy, was long gone. He and his German wife Anneliese, 52, who had spirited him out in the suitcase, turned up in West Germany the same day and were believed to be safely ensconced in the gray stone-and-brick apartment house in the northern town of Soltau where Frau Kappler practices homeopathic medicine...
...Carter calls it an option. The military calls it a deterrent. I see it as simply an instrument of destruction. The priorities governments hold are somehow distorted. We, as Americans, may finance an instrument designed to destroy men not buildings. It's totally absurd. Why value a brick over...
...from their old six-room bungalow (purchase price: $19,000), but Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and his wife Ethel say they can learn to call their new digs home. The Bradleys moved last week into a gabled $600,000 Norman-style, 14-room mansion, complete with herringbone-brick patio and a reflecting pool. The house, built in 1921 in the city's Wilshire district, was once inhabited by Actor John Barrymore. The Getty Oil Co. took it over in 1967 and later donated it to the city, making Los Angeles the third major U.S. city (after New York...