Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet on the Potomac...
...Washington, D.C. The long-talked-of $30 million National Cultural Center has had trouble with Congress, which agreed to provide a Potomac site at Government expense, but insisted that the public must raise the money to build it. Heading the fund-raising committee: Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Eisenhower...
...lure New York-Washington commuters away from the trains and airlines with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from Washington, D.C., across the Potomac to the new Dulles International Airport, another from Orlando, Fla., to Cape Canaveral, and a third in Puerto Rico. The cost of these projects he is willing to share with the U.S. Government...
...should like to make the point that if its owner wants to sell his property, I cannot see what business it is of anyone. Contrary to the Secretary of the Interior, the Potomac Palisades are not "a great scenic resource" ; they are just pretty, and their only uniqueness is the curious richness with which the poison ivy grows...
True. Bobby Kennedy, who lives just a short piece down the road from Merrywood, discreetly avoided taking public sides. But Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. another McLean resident, was on record with: "Since the time of our first President, we as a nation have recognized the Potomac Palisades as a great scenic resource, and over the years considerable effort has been expended to preserve its beauty." Others have been more outspoken, and quiet McLean has been alive with protest meetings and petitions. Griped Radio Commentator Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly spiel is paid for by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ("Thirteen...