Word: faneuil
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...last, the challenge was formally issued. In Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, where Samuel Adams once preached revolt against the ruling British, Ted Kennedy last week finally proclaimed his insurgency. It was, inevitably, a family affair. When Rose Kennedy arrived to watch the third of her sons' campaigns begin, she received a thunderous ovation from some 400 relatives and friends. Also attending were the widows of Ted's two murdered brothers: Jacqueline Onassis and Ethel Kennedy...
...rush to launch his campaign so that he can combat the power of the Carter incumbency, Kennedy this week will make the official announcement of his candidacy at historic Faneuil Hall in his native Boston. California Governor Jerry Brown, who has been planning his own run against Carter for more than a year, is expected to follow suit the next day at the National Press Club in Washington. Republican Howard Baker, the minority leader of the U.S. Senate, last week made his candidacy official. Next week former California Governor Ronald Reagan will announce his latest attempt. On this, his third...
Kennedy has indicated he will announce his candidacy Wednesday at Faneuil Hall...
From San Francisco's pioneering Ghirardelli Square and Boston's celebrated Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market complex, from Manhattan's reclaimed SoHo district to Sacramento's rehabilitated Skid Row, the emphasis is not so much on reverential restoration of old buildings as on their modernization and re-use without distortion of their original character. While this trend was long resisted by architects who feel that their role is to leave their own creative imprint on the cityscape, many of the nation's top architectural firms have joined the movement to preserve and refit. Three years...
...drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George and Martha rest in peace at its Metropolitan Museum...