Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Teddy returns from his skiing trip to the $600-a-month red-brick house he has rented in Georgetown, Washington confidently expects him to behave just like any other freshman Senator who happens to be 30 years old and a brother of the President. Teddy would like to be on the Foreign Relations Committee (not necessarily, as one wag suggested, as chairman), but will probably settle instead for a spot on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Labor and Public Welfare, or Commerce Committee. From such a post, Teddy's aides say, he can really do MORE for Massachusetts...
...gorgeous, $300,000 brick-and-wrought-iron townhouse in Manhattan's east 705, filled with primitive masks and sophisticated paintings by numerous young artists whose work he wants to en courage He owns two harbors and an isthmus in Rhodes, which he discovered when he filmed The Guns of Navarone...
Unable to compete in economic aid, Red China sent in 22,000 laborers, who have built dams, brick kilns, a glass factory, and a 50,000-kw. power plant. The blue-clad laborers (known locally as "blue ants") were promised land in Mongolia, but when the Mongols clearly lined up with Russia, Peking withdrew 14,000 workers. Those remaining stay close to their fenced-in barracks; it is doubtful that any will be allowed to stay on after their contracts expire...
...Taxas architectural firm of Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott have submitted a set of drawings which call for a square brick building with irregularly shaped windows on each side. Kaebler reported that some of the windows may be two stories high while others will be "short...
When Boston architect Henry R. Shepley '10 received an honorary degree at the 1957 Commencement, the citation said that "his monument is the good red brick and mortar of his college." Shepley had designed a host of University buildings, including the Houses and Lamont Library; and his death last weekend marked the end of an era in Harvard architecture...