Word: hoover
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Late this summer I visited the Truman, Eisenhower, and Hoover libraries. These midwestern facilities differ in setting and mood and none is located in a congested urban area. But they all suggest what a presidential library may mean for Cambridge...
...Herbert Hoover Presidential Library is on the Hoover Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa, where Herbert Hoover was born in 1874, one of three children of the village blacksmith. This eastern part of Iowa is lovely, rolling, fertile farm country, and the historic site itself is a beautifully maintained 180 acre tract with open land, trees, and a meandering stream. The gravesites of Herbert Hoover and his wife, simple granite monuments, are on a wooded knoll. The village of West Branch, with a population of only 1300, seems to merge into the park-like site...
...list of 32 rigidities prepared by Thomas Moore of the Hoover Institution was presented last week to a final pre-summit meeting of economists. While there were quibbles, as well as a few major exceptions taken to Moore's list, the economists were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the general thrust...
...turned up mysteriously years later in his home town of Marion, Ohio. Though 25 Presidents or their families handed over their documents to the Library of Congress free of charge, Congress paid at least $190,000 for the documents of some of the early Presidents. Chief Executives from Herbert Hoover on arranged to have their papers collected and controlled by elaborate libraries set up in their own names...
...Oregon, fans of the World Football League's Portland Storm press together in a 27,500-seat stadium built for baseball before the Hoover Depression. On Randall's Island in the middle of New York's East River, the quarterback of the city's Stars tosses passes into darkness as his team plays under lights first used 35 years ago at Ebbets Field, where apartment houses now stand. ("This is the only stadium, and the only league," says Star Defensive End Gerry Philbin, "where they decide on the coin flip whether they'll take...