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...four Air Force officers. They brought suit seeking to force the President to halt the bombing on the strictly constitutional grounds that only Congress has the power to declare war and that an air war on Cambodia was undeclared. The Government contended that the bombing was "part and parcel of a war that has continued for many years...
Harvard today will lease a parcel of land near the Business School to a group of Allston tenants who will convert it into a park...
...tells it, Nixon and Wife Pat took a fancy in 1969 to the ten-room, Spanish-style house in San Clemente where the late millionaire real estate developer Henry Hamilton Cotton liked to entertain his fellow Democrats, once including Franklin Roosevelt. The Nixons wanted only the house and a parcel of 5.9 acres, but the Cotton heirs insisted on selling the entire property, covering 24.6 acres. To swing the deal, the Nixons agreed to pay $1.4 million, with $400,000 in cash and a $1,000,000 mortgage...
...cash, Nixon borrowed heavily from Abplanalp. In 1970 he took a second loan from Abplanalp after buying a small adjacent parcel of land. The two loans put the President in debt to Abplanalp for $625,000, on personal promissory notes at 8% interest...
There is, for example, a peculiar fascination with things French throughout the pieces in the show. A particular brand of French cigarette package is included as the central element of several of the works. On a formal level, this package can be read, along with flattened parcel post wrapping, as the very model of a three-dimensional object being forced into two dimensions. But also, when looked at in conjunction with works titled The French Line, The French Drawing Block, it becomes clear that the formal task is tied, as another part of the legacy of the modern French schools...