Word: clapboarded
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...drives out of the rolling hills of the Holyoke Range past the white clapboard houses of the upper Connectient Valley into the sleepy little town of Amherst, Massachusetts, one is immediately impressed that here is a New England Village still in the original. Shade trees dot its broad, green common stretching away to the right and the left. Clustered among the trees on a knoll sit a group of New England type brick buildings dominated by a white-spired chapel...
...modest grey clapboard house in Princeton, N.J., Physicist Albert Einstein was deluged with letters, wires and cables from all over the world, soberly deduced that the hubbub was stirred up by the passing of his 75th birthday...
This seems rather akin to replacing the present White House with one of simulated clapboard. If the old motley red and orange roof was not especially beautiful, it did have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
Paul's greatest wish, said the story, was to see Ike, whom he admires even more than his TV-cowboy heroes. A few minutes after church services ended, a trim figure of a man strode up to the Haleys' small clapboard house in West Denver. "Good morning," said the President of the U.S. to wide-eyed Paul Haley. "I hear you want to see me." He chatted for five minutes, then slipped away before reporters and photographers could find...
...become a new symbol of middle-class achievement. On the outskirts of Atlanta are shiny new Negro housing developments (financed by Southern whites), with built-in washing machines. Yet the streets of Harlem are still largely slum streets, and a few blocks from the Atlanta apartments stand the old clapboard huts with outdoor privies. Where should one look for the real direction of the Negro economy...