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Golden autumn sunlight dappled the. freshly whitened south portico of the White House, and a gardener steadily swept at the fallen leaves around the diplomatic entrance. At one minute before 2, the shrieking sirens of an official motorcade split the air, and quickly pomp and circumstance turned into slapstick comedy. The big black limousine pulled up smartly before the red-carpeted doorway. Out popped a beaming Ronald Reagan and his smiling wife...
...beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer...
...mile journey must have had on the 32-year-old Conrad: "Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico...
Amid the boxy steel-and-glass skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan stands a colonnaded French palace of classical elegance. Adorned by Jules Coutan's sculpture Transportation, assorted stone flourishes and a neo-Renaissance portico, the 65-year-old Grand Central Terminal remains one of the nation's finest Beaux-Arts showpieces, a source of inspiration for students of architecture, and a place of sentiment for many of the 500,000 people who pass through it daily. For more than a decade, preservationists have fought to keep the terminal, and last week they won in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds has constructed a temporary wooden passageway under the west portico entrance to Memorial Church because plaster falling from the portico ceiling presented a danger to people using the entrance. B&G officials said yesterday...