Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixons live in a spick & span, two-story white brick house at Spring Valley, a Washington suburb. Nixon no longer does the dishes, and is generally bad at fixing things around the house, but (after his strict Navy training) always neatly hangs up his clothes. Pat Nixon is a good and enthusiastic campaigner, and .so is the rest of the family (although Julie has lately taken a dislike to photographers). During Nixon's senatorial campaign, when all the Nixons were on TV, Julie thoughtfully picked her tiny nose in full view of the TV camera. Said her father: "Julie...
Childhood & Education: Precociously intelligent, and a listener-in almost since cradle days to political talk, Clarissa has early memories of Uncle Winnie building brick walls at Chartwell. "He was always in overalls," she says. "He liked to talk at long, long dinners." Packed off to boarding school at 14, sent to Paris for "finishing," went to Oxford to read philosophy. Introduced to London society in 1938, unofficially named "most beautiful debutante of the year...
...their 16 years in the capital, John and Ivo Sparkman have built themselves a quiet, pleasant life. His wife, who dislikes housework, is on the federal payroll at about $3,000 a year as a secretary in Sparkman's office. They live in a three-bedroom, white brick house in Washington's Spring Valley, which they bought in 1948. Their only child, handsome, 28-year-old Julia Ann (who plans to campaign for her dad), lives with them at present: her husband, Navy Lieut. Commander Tazewell Shepard Jr., is awaiting orders to carrier duty...
Mass Experimenters. The greatest architectural experimenters of all were the builders of modern houses. In the '20s and '30s, most modern houses were little more than white plastered blocks with flat roofs, glass-brick walls and skillfully built-in ugliness. Today, modern houses from Maine to Florida and California are built to please the eye. Comparatively, the number of such houses being built is small, only about 210,000 since war's end and only about 10% of the 1,100,000 houses being built this year. Nevertheless, they have influenced the traditional styles of the mass...
...week's end most of the athletes had left Helsinki and the hospitality of the "wonderful Finns." Once again, as the sun slanted long shadows across the Olympic stadium, the flags of the nations were paraded around the brick-red track. Seven Finnish naval cadets, handsome in blue uniforms and white caps, lowered the Olympic flag. On its high tower, the Olympic torch flared brightly for a moment, then went out. while the crowd sang the Finnish national anthem, the electric Scoreboard hopefully flashed in Latin the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." If no general war intervened, the world...