Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialist. Jack was born on May 18, 1904, as a recently installed wooden plaque on the grimy, six-story, red-brick building at 85 Stanton St. attests. (Beneath Javits' name someone has scrawled "Nigger Lover.") Until his bar mitzvah at 13, Jack slept in the same bed with his brother Ben, now 71. "Our relationship was that of father and son," says Ben, who tried to teach Jack all he knew; to the vast annoyance of Jack's wife, he is still trying. For a time, Ben was, in his words, "a red-hot Socialist" who railed on street corners...
...another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal responsibility in Britain. The victim, though, was granted $6,300. > A university student of 19 was strolling in the street with friends when a gang of six youths attacked them. Coshed with a brick, the student suffered severe brain injuries. One assailant was put on probation, the others confined. The victim received $43,624, highest compensation to date...
Kampala, like Rome, is built on seven hills, and to Ugandans each has its special significance. But none is so important as Mengo Hill, where a rambling brick palace on the peak is an object of universal awe. Not even the British dared violate its sanctity, for beneath its silver dome lived the Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, largest and richest of Uganda's five ancient kingdoms. Buganda's rulers were so powerful in colonial days that they were always granted considerable autonomy by the British. Cambridge-educated Sir Edward F. W. Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula ("Freddy") Mutesa...
Wise Men in Newport. La Farge belonged to the genteel tradition. Born in 1835, the son of a Napoleonic soldier of fortune, he was brought up in the aristocratic red-brick atmosphere of New York's Washington Square. At 21, he was sent to Paris, where he studied briefly with the academician Thomas Couture, then hunted down the greatest old masters from Copenhagen to Dresden...
Less Airmail. The company has bought, stripped to its brick walls and wholly refurbished a 62-year-old, 24-unit tenement, then rented three-fourths of the resulting modern apartments to tenants who had lived there before. Workmen are giving the same treatment to another six-story shambles next door, and four more tenements in the block are in line for similar rescue. Rents, of course, have risen. The rent-controlled apartments once brought $20 to $40 a month. After renovation, U.S. Gypsum collects $65 a month for efficiency apartments, $78 for one-bedroom and $85 for two-bedroom units...