Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines for K.P. duty...
...Army chief and his wife Dorothy, an Aberdeen, S. Dak., girl whom he married in 1935, moved into Quarters No. 1 at Fort Myer, the columned, red-brick Victorian house on Generals' Row that became the Chief of Staff's official residence soon after the post was created in 1903. The 66-year-old house boasts an elevator (installed by the Douglas MacArthurs), a magnificent view of Washington (thanks to Mamie Eisenhower, who cleared away trees and shrubbery blocking it), a barbecue pit (the Matthew Ridgways), and a hotel-size kitchen (the Lyman Lemnitzers...
...STONY BROOK, located within 30 miles of famed Brookhaven National Laboratories, is the most exciting campus in the system. So new that the ivy is only about six inches up the red brick walls, it expects to challenge any university in physics research within a few years. Its $30,000-a-year President Toll is a theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland; his reputation-plus a $45,000-a-year salary-recently lured Nobel Physicist C. N. Yang to Stony Brook to head an Institute of Theoretical Physics that will have a $2,700,000 nuclear lab. Toll...
There are between 310 and 330 Cliffies in off campus houses. According to the Radcliffe Quarterly of February. 1265, about 150 of those in the existing brick dormitories will be moved into Fourth House...
...house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses a 30-acre park...