Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Breuer showed off a model of the memorial, to be built in the capital's West Potomac Park midway between Jefferson's and Lincoln's. But unlike those neoclassical memorials, Breuer's design calls for seven free standing walls, massive granite triangles each 60 ft. high at the apex, radiating from a central stone courtyard. Narrow pools of water run along the base of each wall; small contrariwise triangles beside the pools conceal spotlights. From the air, the monolithic walls appear to be the blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land...
South of the Potomac in Smithfield, Va., Sybil and Doyle Northrup would rather stick with Julia Child. "Last week I went down to our pond and caught two bluegills," says Sybil. "My husband has never been able to get me to touch a fish, but I thought: 'Julia, if you can do it, so can I.' We broiled them in butter just the way she does. They were delicious." Under Julia's tutelage, the Northrups are developing into fullfledged gourmets. They are even going so far as to plant their own wild rice, because, explains Doyle...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had his own phrase for her-"a delightful ogre"-possibly because he once intervened on behalf of a friend denied a passport, had to report back: "Mrs. Shipley says no and that...
What she possesses is a fall, a gorgeous mane of human hair that pins to the top of the head to produce an extravagant but natural-looking cascade of tresses. From the Potomac to the Pacific, the fall is the runaway hair fashion of the season...
...Context. The range is virtually unlimited, the impact almost awesome, the promise increasingly impressive. Yet there is general agreement that TV news still falls short of its potential. "It is hard for television newscasting to serve the more mature purposes of journalism," says Harold Fleming, director of the Potomac Institute. "It is hard for TV to give perspective, to put things in context...