Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real estate taxes for his home in McLean, Va., $3,171 for his house in Hyannis Port, Mass., plus $3,890 interest on a chattel mortgage for his 50-ft. sloop Curragh. He also claimed losses of $3,938 from two rental properties in Boston and Madison, Wis. Though the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, of which the Senator is president, has given an average $2 million a year to charity since 1946, Kennedy made personal charitable contributions in 1973 of $4,678-objects unspecified. He also took the maximum allowable $25 credit for "contributions to candidates for public office...
...then there were the problems Pei encountered with the Christian Science Center. Pei put his classically-oriented partner, Aldo Cussutta--who has since left the firm and moved upstairs from Pei's ninth floor domain at 600 Madison Ave.--as the head of the design team. Although Cussatta "quite typically began examining the potentials of this project in the broadest urban contexts," according to a March 1973 Architecture Plus article, and though the sprawling center was in perfect harmony with Pei's clients, the building's neighbors and the site's original occupants weren't too happy about leaving...
...sample, Degler has little time to explore his subjects' intellectual evolutions. Yet these, too, seem basic to his thesis that the Southern environment bred a peculiar type of reformer. He mentions in passing that many of them, although native to the region, studied outside the South. James Madison Wells, a wealthy Louisiana planter who became a radical Republican when the War began, attended a Cincinnati law school, and there are some Yale men among the dissenters. Were they stranded from the South's social and intellectual confines after their leaves of absence? Degler also gives examples of slaveholding white Southerners...
Shouting crowds of fans turn out everywhere on Haggard's current nationwide tour. Giving his first concerts ever in New York City last month, he packed the 4,600-seat Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden twice in one night. Last week, as the Haggard caravan worked its way from Wichita, into Oklahoma City and Tulsa, the scene was a familiar one. The lean, darkly virile star came out in plain navy blue slacks and open shirt, leaned into the spotlight and sang in his sensuous, leathery baritone Things Aren't Funny Anymore, the current No. 1 country...
...second game of the series is at Madison Square Garden tonight at 9 p.m. If the Knicks take this one, the series will probably go seven games; if they lose, it's all over...