Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residents of the quiet Derbyshire village of Parwich, 110 miles north of London, had been curious for weeks about what was going on at "White Meadows," a red brick Edwardian mansion just outside of town. When it was sold last spring, its name was changed to "The Red House." Guards patroled the grounds, and no one from the place so much as set foot in the Sycamore Arms, the local pub. Late one night last week they found out. Switching on powerful floodlights, a force of 100 policemen raided the three-story house. While they made no arrests, they claimed...
That does not mean they enjoy busing. "I'm really not for it," says Woods. "I'd much rather have the boys closer to home." Last year Ken walked to Martin Luther King School, only two blocks from his trim red brick home in the city's predominantly black West End. Byron attended Shawnee Junior High School, ten blocks away. Says the boys' mother, Mary, a medical lab technician at Jewish Hospital: "If there was a better way of bringing about racial equality in the schools, we'd go for it, but there doesn...
...school opening in Louisville, the three children of Al and Mildred McCauley-David, 15, Danny, 14, and Debbie, 10-remained in their brick home in Highview, a white middle-class suburb in Jefferson County. Debbie, who was not scheduled for busing and could have attended her old school a few blocks away, asked, "Mommy, when can I go? If I don't pretty soon, I'm going to be far behind." Mrs. McCauley shook her head and looked away...
This week, 186 years after John Adams was sworn into the job, the U.S. Vice President and his family will at last get an officially designated home of their own. It is Admiral's House, a three-story gabled and turreted white brick Victorian mansion of 33 rooms on Embassy row, 21/2 miles northwest of the White House. But the 82-year-old Admiral's House has proved to be something of a rusty boat since Congress captured it by Executive fiat from the Navy, which had used it since 1928 to quarter the families of the chiefs...
...their private day schools. After dropping them off, he continues driving through countryside that remains green with grazing pastures right up to the area bordering Darlaston. Like many towns in the Midlands, Darlaston resembles the fictional Coketown of Charles Dickens' Hard Times: "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black...