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...billion. The '20s real estate boom was centered in Florida, had created millionaires and seemed to prove, then as now, that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that the U.S. had a "good solid economy" stirred echoes of Herbert Hoover, another engineer President, who said two days after the Black Thursday of 1929 that the "fundamental business of the country is sound...
Presidential libraries are a 20th century phenomenon. The papers of 23 Presidents are housed in the Library of Congress in Washington. But Presidents starting with Hoover have preferred that their papers rest in their own libraries. Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live...
...Hoover says the band and the squad have since made peace. She asked the band for a record of their songs, so they can do a routine to 10,000 Men of Harvard at the Dartmouth game. And at the last game, the band cheered the cheerleaders' performance...
...Hoover recalls the first cheerleader squad-football team encounter. "We were practicing before the UMass game down at the field, and they didn't know who we were. They asked us what we were doing and we told them we were going to be their cheerleaders. They got all excited. They said, 'yeah, all right...
...games though, the team is less demonstrative. Hoover says they smile and clap, but don't usually say anything to the cheerleaders. Coutu suspects it is because "they are all wrapped up in the game." But their oblivion doesn't distress her. She knows that the team is inwardly grateful. "the general reaction is like, 'wow, they really care about...