Word: oval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blend of French and Italian architectural styles. The chateau's peaked roofs, developed by France's François Mansart are coupled with an Italianate dome reminiscent of St. Peter's. The entrance vestibule, decorated with Tuscan columns, leads into an 88-ft.-long white oval Grand Salon circled by arched French windows and crowned with stucco caryatids...
Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
...Mighty Oval. The verdict from the 42,080 opening-day crowd was prompt and affirmative. "It still has its old familiar charm," declared George D. Widener, 79, who has raced his colors at Belmont since 1913. "Beautiful," sighed Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest. "Bigger and better than ever," said Jockey Club Chairman Ogden Phipps...
...celebrate Belmont's reopening, the noted poet and racing devotee, Classicist Rolfe Humphries, 73, set down his own memory parade in verse (first printed below). With the horses running once again on Belmont's wide-sweeping mile-and-a-half oval, the longest in the U.S., even the jockeys and trainers were cheering. "Now we've got all the big races back where they belong," said Owner-Trainer E. Barry Ryan. "It's great to be home again...
...breakers: Paul Klee's 1936 Südische Garten, formerly owned by Architect Mies van der Rohe, which went for $86,400; and Jean Dubuffet's 1947 Il Flúte sur la Basse, which brought $48,000. Highest bid was $300,000 for Picasso's oval-shaped 1912 cubist painting La Pointe de la Cite. Second most expensive picture was Georges Braque's Homage à J. S. Bach from the same period, which was bought for $276,000 by Manhattan Dealer Sidney Janis, who last January gave his first ($2,000,000) art collection...