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Died. Sheridan Downey, 77, two-term (1939-50) Democratic Senator from California, a wealthy lawyer who contracted an uncontrollable social itch in Depression days and sought to alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...
...across both banks of the Angara River and surrounded by industrial suburbs whose factories turn out plywood as well as machine tools; bricks, knitwear and cement as well as tractors. In the city, the old is carelessly mixed with the new. Many streets are potholed and puddled, lined with haphazard wooden hovels that have leaned crazily for years. Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with government buildings, theaters, stores and hotels. Irkutsk's citizens are hustled to work in jammed buses in the mornings, and when the day's labor is finished, hurry home again...
...shortcomings of Radcliffe's physical plant presented the most concreate dilemma. In the past the College has grown in a haphazard fashion, with only sporadic efforts to plan for the future. Land has been purchased when available, new dormitories hastily constructed when old ones proved insufficient. No one paused to consider seriously whether the separation of class buildings, located in the Yard, from the residential Quadrangle was the best of all possible arrangements, or whether the dormitory system provided the best living quarters for a bunch of young women in search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials...
Alexandre & Nathalie. Jackie's conquest of Paris was no haphazard campaign. No summit conference was more carefully planned than the First Lady's return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
...apse first came to the Met's attention when John D. Rockefeller Jr returned from France in 1935 with a haphazard collection of photographs of medieval works that an agent had wished on him in Paris. In those days The Cloisters, Rockefeller's great gift to the Met, had not yet been built, but plans tor it were nearly complete. It was to be, and now is, a museum overlooking the Hudson River from a ridge at Manhattan's northern tip, a building designed in such a way that parts of antique castles churches and monasteries could...