Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and two undergraduates signed a petition protesting "the military involvement of the United States in the defense of Quemoy and Matsu" yesterday while the Harvard Liberal Union was collecting $120 to help repair the Clinton, Tenn., high school...
...another move to alleviate the Boston area parking problem, Governor Furcolo recently signed a bill providing for construction, maintenance, repair, and operation of a garage under the Boston Common and creating the Massachusetts Parking Authority...
Meanwhile, members of the Buildings and Grounds Department, the Fire Department, insurance investigators and members of the Band, which maintains its headquarters in the basement of the building, began the long job of inspection, cleanup and repair of the damage, estimated...
Hold the Vultures. Dulles flew down to talk with President Juscelino Kubitschek and to repair the damage done to inter-American solidarity by the anti-Nixon riots last May. Kubitschek had written to President Eisenhower suggesting a presidential get-together. Later he proposed "Operation Pan-American" for a long-run strengthening of the hemisphere's bonds by planned economic development. Dulles studied Kubitschek's proposals on the long flight south, and also read reports of the reception being planned for him by leftists and nationalists. Flocks of vultures were to be released, roadblocks set up, demonstrations staged...
Arbiter of Style. The reaction of visiting architects and the official press tended to be favorable. Professionals were struck by the U.S. technical know-how, analyzed plumbing, wiring and heating systems, wondered (along with many an American) "how you keep them in repair." No less an authority than Nikita Khrushchev endorsed modern architecture over the Russian style. Speaking to leaders of delegations to the architectural congress, Khrushchev said that the very buildings at the university, where the congress was held, are too elaborate and ornate. He recommended simpler buildings. And that, as one American in Moscow put it, should...