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...Spaniards cut windows and doors in the blank adobe walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled...
...Bunting also said yesterday that first-floor rooms in Barnard and Whitman would definitely be used next year for masters' offices and callers' rooms in South and East Houses respectively. No reconversion of deconverted doubles will be necessary in either dorm because of additional space in the recently-purchased apartment building at 124 Walker...
...Casey and Babe are seen peering through an open window as Miss Rosten prepares her breakfast. Actually half of the shooting took place from inside the kitchen of Gilman House at Radcliffe. The street-view shots of the Peeping Toms, however, were taken outside the Owl Club, because the first-floor level there made peeping somewhat easier than the greater height from the ground of the Gilman kitchen. When Miss Rosten seems to be pulling the shade on her uninvited guests, the shading is actually being performed from inside the club...
...Emma, Brenda, Belle." Gray sometimes tours the retailers himself (often in one of the company's three private planes), but most of his time is spent in Winston-Salem. There, he is out of bed daily at 6 a.m. sharp in the first-floor bedroom of his modified Georgian home on his 800-acre Brookberry Farm, where he lives with his wife and family (five sons, ranging from 9 to 22). He eats breakfast alone at 7:20 because "I made a deal with my wife when we were first married...
...night, after dinner, he often goes to work alone in a hideaway upstairs office, where he can hear the sounds of the best dance band in Africa, arising from the first-floor exclusive Equator Club, which is open to white hunters, rich settler types, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and Hollywood visitors-but not to Africans. Except on trips, Mboya has little time these days for the nightclubs and dancing he loves (he once shook the maracas in a dance band), or for the many girl friends, not all of them African, whom Tom has always attracted. His current flame...