Word: merrywood
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Things weren't so merry around Merrywood three years ago when Washington Stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss sold the 46-acre estate on the Potomac Palisades to a syndicate that wanted to build three 17-story apartment buildings there. Desecration! fumed Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, arguing that the hills that "Hughdee's" stepdaughter, Jackie Kennedy, had loved as a child were also one of the nation's "great scenic resources." A resourceful Interior Department headed off the deal, and now Washington Investor C. Wyatt Dickerson, who recently bought the place for $650,000, plans to turn Merrywood into...
...looked with nostalgia at the photograph of Merrywood [May 11, where "from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis and gamboled about." From the time I was 10 (seven years before the Bouvier arrival), I also swam, played tennis, etc. there, and it is sad to see the old place...
...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...
...unpleasantness arose because Hughdee signed a contract to sell Merrywood, for about $750,000, to a syndicate that wants to build three 17-story apartment buildings on the property-which, with its environs, has been described by a local newspaper as a place of "verdant grandeur." The prospect of hundreds of apartment dwellers despoiling McLean has aroused residents of the area to an outburst of verdant vituperation...
True. Bobby Kennedy, who lives just a short piece down the road from Merrywood, discreetly avoided taking public sides. But Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. another McLean resident, was on record with: "Since the time of our first President, we as a nation have recognized the Potomac Palisades as a great scenic resource, and over the years considerable effort has been expended to preserve its beauty." Others have been more outspoken, and quiet McLean has been alive with protest meetings and petitions. Griped Radio Commentator Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly spiel is paid for by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ("Thirteen...