Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the Senate-Administration version of home rule there were twenty-odd others before the House District Committee. Among these were such curiosities as the Broyhill Bill, proposing that the District of Columbia be given back to Maryland, and the Sisk Bill...
Descendant of a well-to-do colonial Maryland family, Shriver does not consider himself wealthy, though he hardly has to scrimp. He rents a 30-acre estate in Rockville, Md., called "Timberlawn," just bought a house near the Kennedy summer compound in Hyannis Port for something under $200,000. As OEO director he earns $30,000, insists on better-than-average salaries for his staff- 23 top aides make more than $20,000, 40 others earn $15,000 or more. Though this has led to cracks about the "sweet smell of poverty," Shriver reasons that it takes good money...
...bred in Maryland (no Maryland-bred had ever won the Derby...
...eight years, WPA alone produced 18,800 sculptures, 108,000 easel paintings, 11,300 original prints, and 2,500 murals for public buildings. At its peak, it employed some 5,000 artists. As a current exhibition of 83 works at the University of Maryland's art gallery shows, the U.S. got quite a bit for its money...
...Hewlett ran sixth in the two-mile run, but recorded his fastest time in almost a year, 9:02.1. Ivy League nonpareil Chris Pardee had a bad day and could only clear 6' 6" in the high jump, finishing third to his nemisis, fellow seven-footer Frank Costello from Maryland...