Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the money. Bathroom and kitchen floors are covered with vinyl instead of tile, and closets have sliding doors made out of a light plastic material rather than wood. Boston Builder Anthony Lapuma has turned out the first half dozen of what he calls "workingman's specials." The Cape Cod-style houses sell for $49,900, but the second floor, which is big enough for a large bedroom and small bathroom, is completely unfinished...
DIED. Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 82, who as Defense Minister of South Africa helped turn the country into a virtual fortress of white apartheid rule and later served as President from 1968 to 1975; in Cape Town. In 1962, fearing an attack by a black "army of liberation" based in other African nations, Fouché initiated South Africa's largest-ever peacetime military buildup and warned its neighbors: "Stay where you are or there will be trouble...
...their grip on the viewer. In part, these come from his sense of place and his unsparing, discreet eye for the truth of a scene. Anyone who has spent time on the sea knows that nothing, in terms of observation, is missing from his images of Truro on Cape Cod, like The Martha McKean of Wellfleet, 1944. From the humping blue of the water to the mild sun on the belly of the gaff-rigged sail, it is all there, immemorial, as permanent as the way the gulls face into the light...
...most famous men in his country. With its peculiar mixture of propriety and prurience, Victorian England doted on real-life stories as fantastic as anything in the writings of Dickens or Conan Doyle. Jack the Ripper: the surgical knife beneath the opera cape. John Merrick: the heart of gold in the body of the world's ugliest man. For Merrick was no imbecile. He was an intelligent young man with the romantic sensibility of a Victorian swain. London society courted the Elephant Man; great ladies gave him their photographs; Alexandra, Princess of Wales, paid him many visits...
MURAG has battled two other banks on community investments. In one, MURAG blocked the purchase of bank by the Provident Bank, but in March the group failed to stop the expansion of Freedom Federal Savings and Loan on Cape Cod. But the latter case was not a total loss for MURAG. Since the last hearings in March the bank has improved its community reinvestment and loan programs, Carras said...