Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house-hunting time in Chevy Chase, and the property that caught the eye of the prospects was Bonnie Brae, the estate of Washington Department Store Heir Nathaniel H. Luttrell Jr. After negotiations are completed for the landscaped grounds and 17-room fieldstone and brick house, the new neighbor at 6036 Oregon Avenue, N.W., wall probably be Anatoly F. Dobrynin, 42, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Reported price for the new embassy...
High Standards. A breezy place, with more Americans than the other colleges, St. Mike's is a block-square complex of old red brick and new limestone buildings, set off from the bulk of the university by spacious Queen's Park. Canadians sometimes charge it with Catholic clannishness. Nonetheless, it is far more worldly than the average U.S. Catholic college. Some of its students even take all their courses outside St. Mike's, mixing with agnostics and perhaps bracing their faith in the process. "I believe in confrontation with other than Catholic ideas," says U.S.-born Father...
Tony Richardson, 34, is a Yorkshireman who hates things gently. As chief director among the so-called Angry Young Men, he helped Writer John Osborne toss a large red brick through the French doors of conventional English stagecraft, bringing the smell of soot and soft coal into the theater...
...white-trimmed brick building at Beltsville, Md., is swarming with frustrated maidens and looks like a young ladies' finishing school. But there are no students among the 8,000 carefully segregated females who live there. They all work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and they spend their lives in milk cans warmed by a gentle stream of air. Raised and cared for by Entomologist Robert T. Yamamoto, these sex-starved cockroaches are fed on dog meal, and their only job is to exude a sex lure that drives male cockroaches crazy...
...dances his soundless ballets. He is a theatrical master of total illusion. When he climbs an imaginary ladder, the rungs creak; when he leans against a nonexistent bar, the bar leans back with wooden stubbornness; when his outthrust palms slide feverishly along a make-believe wall, the air turns brick-solid...