Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NASA is currently considering three locations in the city, O'Neill said. They are Technology Sq., the city dump, and 25 acres of swampland near the Concord Turnpike...
...Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...
...served in school lunch programs and more distributed to needy families. Cattlemen meanwhile are taking a traditional step toward the same end: an estimated 2,000,000 head are being held back from market. But a paradox lies here too. Bad weather or economic pinches could force cattlemen to dump the held-back cattle, thus tumbling prices even lower than they...
RICHARD STANKIEWICZ-Stable, 33 East 74th. Dada takes the credit, but the ability to look at trash and find something of esthetic value begins with children. As a child, Stankiewicz played in a foundry dump; today he leads the sculptors who make assemblages of junk. Scavenging in scrapyards, rusting and welding the iron and steel he finds, he makes figures and abstractions. Says he: "I take something already degenerating, discarded, and then I make something beautiful of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' " Through April...
...felt. After becoming Vice President, Johnson sank into the sort of semiobscurity traditional to holders of that post, and the standard gibe at New Frontier cocktail parties was: "Whatever happened to Lyndon?" Before President Kennedy's death, there was also a lot of talk about a "Dump Johnson" campaign. Through it all, Johnson kept silence. But he did not forget or forgive, and he blamed a lot of his problems on Bobby...