Word: philadelphia
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Once it was a farmhouse, a great Federal affair of brick and hand-hewn oak that majestically held a Pennsylvania knoll just west of Philadelphia. It was a very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...Lions' trip to Franklin Field in Philadelphia will be broadcast over the Eastern Educational Network beginning at 1 p.m. this Saturday...
Carol L. Holmes, Philadelphia...
...first, which will deal with domestic issues, will take place on Oct. 7 in Louisville; the second, centering on foreign and defense policy, is scheduled for Oct. 21 in Kansas City. The vice-presidential candidates, George Bush and Geraldine Ferraro, will go head-to-head on Oct. 11 in Philadelphia...
Elise du Pont, educated at Miss Porter's School and Bryn Mawr, entered politics late in life, having raised four children before she started law school in Philadelphia at age 40. Her volunteer effort for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign won her a high-level appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...