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Thieves' Market. Evenings, most tourists ride the funicular railway up the 1,800-foot Peak, which was once the exclusive citadel of British taipans and has a view of sea, sky and islands that puts the Bay of Naples to shame. They go to the floating restaurants at the fishing village of Aberdeen, where patrons select the live fish that will be served them at dinner. Between bouts of shopping, visitors wander amid the outlandish statuary of the Tiger Balm Garden or prowl the stairway streets above Queen's Road and look into the thieves' market...
When it came to folk songs, the local boys, (supposedly hailing from a citadel of patricianism) far outstripped the visiting firemen. The Harvard folk singing was robust, spirited, and just right for foot-tapping; it was a pity that the audience couldn't join in. The Elis, on the other hand, lacked the spirit that seemed to move their associates. They sang with almost mathematical precision not only in the folk songs, but in their entire repertoire. Mr. Heath was in full control all the time, evoking a wide range of dynamics and a very effective separation and balance...
Huge fortress walls protecting the citadel of Sardis, capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, have been reported by a Cornell-Harvard archeological group exploring the site...
...tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him." In the family war councils it was decided that Jack should make his political debut in the congressional race for Boston's Eleventh District-a Democratic citadel that includes Cambridge and Harvard, but is largely made up of slums and the middle-class Irish and Italian wards of East Boston. It was home ground for Honey Fitz, and the area where Joe Kennedy was born, but Jack was a complete stranger. He rented a carpetbagger...
...Jewish Theological Seminary ('48); State University of N.Y. ('48); Santo Domingo ('48); Caen ('48); Temple ('50); Denver ('50); William and Mary ('53); Dartmouth ('53); Catholic University ('53); Washington College ('54); Trinity ('54); Pennsylvania State ('55); Citadel ('55); Baylor ('56); American University ('57); Mount St. Mary's ('58); Johns Hopkins ('58); Georgetown ('58); University of New Delhi ('59); Notre Dame (!60); University of the Philippines...