Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the backing of Interior Secretary Udall, the Smithsonian argued before the commission that the temple should be erected outdoors on the banks of the Potomac, for the benefit of the capital's 9,000,000 annual tourists. The Smithsonian maintained that the temple's porous sandstone, which is so soft a man can scratch it with his finger, could be coated with synthetic resins to protect it in the East Coast's soggy climate. The Met cited testimony indicating that any outdoor setting would reduce the temple to a pile of sand and stone stumps...
...looks like granite darts. But it's about time we have something in Washington besides Greek temples and Roman edifices-something from the mid-20th century in which we live." Another something he has suggested, only half in jest, is the construction of floating swimming pools in the Potomac-since nobody seems anxious to clean up the polluted river...
...zest for the subtler perquisites of success: tea at his desk at midmorning and midafternoon, stylish Ivy League suits tailored by Zareh Inc. of Boston, a treasured collection of opera records. He lavished hours last month on the selection of wallpaper, carpeting and furniture for his new two-level Potomac-view apartment (rent: $310 a month) in an integrated section of southwest Washington. He owns a $40,000, nine-room home in the prosperous Boston suburb of Newton, has an eleven-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard...
...leave the Pentagon to become the President's executive assistant, with powers akin to those that Sherman Adams exercised with flinty authority under Dwight Eisenhower. That prospect is, at best, remote. McNamara and Johnson are almost certainly too strong-willed to operate harmoniously under one roof. With the Potomac River between them, they get along swimmingly...
...turning the volume up during the Washington sequences. Across town, 70% of the Congress and most Cabinet members are regular viewers. Secretary of State Rusk has gone so far as to position his bedroom TV so that he can see Today in his shaving mirror. Beyond the Potomac, Atlanta Constitution Publisher and Syndicated Columnist Ralph McGill watches "with great frequency." TV Chef Julia Child does her morning calisthenics by it. On the West Coast, Danny Kaye and Pat Brown are fans. In Manhattan, Today is one of the two programs (the other: the Huntley-Brinkley Report) that RCA Boss David...