Word: monticello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the Harvard contingent didn't fare as well. Captain Ed Franquemont--who had been seeded third in the 152-class--was upset by Penn State's Bob Abraham in overtime. Franquemont had scored an initial 2:57 pin over Cornell's Tony Monticello...
...facade is a Greco-pueblo-neo-Monticello compromise, and like most compromises, likely to please no one. The drumlike walls are sheathed in adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice; narrow porticos add a Federal touch; bronze doors, capped with Greek pediments, are set in four entrances that project to form, in an air view, the Zia Indian tribe's radiating symbol...
GREAT HOUSES OF AMERICA by Henry and Ottalie Williams. 295 pages. Putnam. $20. The best there is in the U.S., from Monticello and The Breakers to obscure local favorites such as Adena at Chillicothe, Ohio, and Bellingrath in Theodore, Ala. Interiors, exteriors and floor plans...
...brick U.S. Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...