Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRADE WITH MOSCOW: "I think the Soviets need and want access to Western markets and our technology. We can build on all of that, but I think we ought to reassess a little what we're asking in return. I believe we might be able to get more than we've been asking for without blowing up the mutual effort to find common ground. Some say Kissinger didn't have enough fire in his belly to do this...
Billy perversely told the press on Election Night that he might like to move to Australia to try again for public office. In fact he has bought 170 wooded acres near town to build his family a new house far from the gawking tourists who "drive you slap-assed crazy." Nor will he be a stranger to public service. Right after losing to Blanton. he was named to a six-year, $1,800-per-annum term as tax assessor for Sumter County. Good thing that, as he says, he has never felt jealous of Jimmy...
Sakowitz, the Houston superstore that offers the above enticements, has alter-ego trips for Yule and You-all. For $2 million an acre-the buyer provides the acre-Disney Designer Roland Crump will build him and her their own amusement park. Andy Warhol will produce, write, photograph and direct a feature film to suit the patrons' whim...
Shored Up. There was little choice but to build a new shrine. The one erected in 1709 held only 2,000 people, and it was sinking in the spongy soil. The badly cracked structure will now be shored up and preserved as a museum. The new $24 million concrete and marble basilica is supported by 1,000 subterranean pillars and can hold 20,000 people without a single column obstructing the view of the altar. "Thousands of pilgrims want to get a glimpse of Our Lady's image at the same time," explains its architect, Pedro Ramirez Vazquez...
...Juan Diego's people ten years before, the Virgin affectionately called him "my son" and said to him in the Aztec tongue: "Here I will offer all my love, my pity, my aid and my protection to the people." She ordered the Aztec to tell the bishop to build a sanctuary to her on a nearby hillside, where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop...