Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reston, in Clydebank, Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such as Christmas and other holidays; otherwise the family lived in the front room, Mrs. Reston cooking over a grate, the two children, Jimmy and his elder sister (by four years) Joan, sleeping crosswise...
...angry Dallas newsmen outside the two-story brick house at 6116 Gaston Avenue, Edmund Barker, news director of radio-TV station KRLD, the local CBS outlet, seemed a traitor to the reportorial trade. Standing beside Barker on the front porch was gaunt, tearful Frances Spears, wife of fugitive Naturopath Robert Vernon Spears (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). When the other reporters tried to question Mrs. Spears, Barker shooed them away, ushered her back into the house, explaining: "Her kids have to have a bath." Growled one newsman contemptuously: "Are you going to give it to them...
Rudolph's first major building was the $3,000,000 arts center for Wellesley College, completed in 1958. Trying to harmonize his building with the existing collegiate Gothic of the campus, Rudolph adapted the 15-ft. bay spaces and red brick of the older buildings, used an enameled sun screen to provide a functional equivalent to the richness of neo-Gothic stone tracery...
...wife, Martha, and his eight children, he also owns about $6,000,000 worth of company stock. He has an ocean-front estate in Palm Beach (for weekends), a three-room suite in Manhattan's Berkshire Hotel (where he spends Monday and Tuesday) and a $200,000 red-brick home in Greensboro (where he spends Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). Commuting among them, Love travels some 2,300 miles a week by plane and train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days a week and well into the night, breaking off for a frequent...
...Television Workshop (CBS, 12 noon-12:55 p.m.). Established last fall to develop fresh TV writing and directing talent, the workshop makes its debut by presenting The Brick and the Rose, a first TV play by Lewis John Carlino...