Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judging from the comment, few taxpayers were satisfied. The floors still slant, and the walls still lean as much as ten inches, but Architect Raymond Erith confidently assured everyone: "We've hooked it up good and proper and it won't fall down...
...university. Then-after visiting Oxford and Cambridge ("draftiest damn week of my life") for guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres as endowment. Though yet to feel the cling of ivy, Raymond has everything else: tutorials for its 124 students, a scholarly faculty of 17, comprehensive exams, and a bold taste for guest speakers from...
...auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only bid-?28,000. It was the highest price ever offered for a philatelic item, and nobody chose to go higher. The hammer fell, and Mr. Weill leaned across to a fellow American. "How much is ?28,000 in dollars?" he asked. Answer...
...five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never before sailed a 5.5-meter in international competition...
Next morning the Quartermaster Company was lined up, and the surviving injured airmen picked out their assailants, who were all PFCs: Richard Parker of Eckman, W. Va., Edward Spears of New York City, Raymond Host of Pittsburgh, Franklin Waddell and Robert Burrell of Philadelphia. The arrested men were Negroes, the injured and the dead whites. Even so, there was a debate at Evreux as to whether or not the fatal brawl was indeed a race riot...