Word: exteriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House some antique wallpaper-still available new in France-for which salvage rights had cost only $50. "Some people like old broken things because they are old and broken down; maybe Mrs. Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser under the ire of the White House's youngest staffer: "Hours of painstaking care must be taken to remove antique paper from old plaster walls...Anyone willing...
Although he presented a cool exterior to the public, and rejected intimacy, Sam Rayburn was a warmhearted humanitarian. The day after his close friend, former Vice President Alben Barkley, died, Rayburn let his emotions show. Stepping into the well of the House, he delivered a moving eulogy in a choked voice. "God bless his memory," he said. "God comfort his loved ones. God comfort...
Mindful of last year's letter to the CRIMSON from O. Kimball Armayor '61, criticizing the unimaginative design of the Leverett Towers, we are gratified to note that some variety has been introduced into the exterior appearance of these buildings...
...stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green color of that wall mocks the eye. In the lobby and other interior areas, the combination of good materials -plastics, woods, ceramics, marble, bright metal-sometimes startles, often stuns...
...explosion was immediate. "A cheap and partisan trick," snapped Richard Nixon. Senate Republican Leader "Ev" Dirksen declared that Udall apparently wanted to become "Secretary of the Exterior and take over a domain in which he has no business." And President Kennedy, struggling to achieve a bipartisan atmosphere, said he was "strongly opposed to anyone within or without the Administration at tempting to shift the responsibility...