Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...
...wide-ranging," "candid" and "not uncordial"; Jackie Kennedy took Rada on a tour of the White House nursery. The Adzhubeis also took a meal with the Bobby Kennedys, about to leave on a world tour, and with the Salingers. Later, Salinger took them on a boat trip down the Potomac; Salinger's son Stephen, 9, played The Star-Spangled Banner on his violin as the boat passed the George Washington mansion at Mount Vernon...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission has approved a controversial design for a monument to the author of the New Deal: a set of sky-stabbing concrete slabs to be erected in West Potomac Park. The memorial has been variously described as "the epitome of mid-20th century art" by Architect Philip C. Johnson and as "instant Stonehenge" by the critical Washington Post and Times Herald. The Post last week suggested that one of the slabs carry an epitaph to the shortlived National Recovery Administration (1933-35): "Here lies beneath this pillar grey/The late-lamented NRA/It lived and breathed...
Died. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, 89, stately widow of President Woodrow Wilson; after a long illness; in Washington on the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth and within hours of the dedication of the new Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. A Virginia-born belle descended from Pocahontas, Edith Galt entered Wilson's circle through her friendship with his daughter, married the World War I President in the White House on the eve of the hard-fought 1916 election campaign, became his cherished confidante during the taxing war years, shared both his triumphant postwar tour...
...with considerable cause-that much of Washington's statuary was awful; as a step toward remedying the situation, he shipped a bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan back to Bryan's birthplace in Salem, Ill. This raised a ruckus from Washington's Bryan fanciers. Later, a Potomac, Md., innkeeper exploded when Udall, on a hiking trip along the banks of the Potomac River with, among others, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, marched into her place in a rain-soaked poncho. "Get out of here!" she cried. "You look like...