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...Though there was no real reason why Dallas air passengers could not use the new, safer Fort Worth facilities, few permitted themselves even a second of such treasonable thought. Dallas, its citizenry decided, must have a big airport too. The solution seemed simple: all they had to do was rip down houses in which hundreds of families live at present, subject other residential areas to the constant snarling of aircraft, and spend about $15 million. Love Field would then be comparable to Fort Worth's. Closer to town too. Last week Dallas citizens voted approval of a $12.5 million...
...room of his Gorinka estate, about 25 miles outside of Moscow, hangs a pink marble plaque which reads: "Emperor Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When the real body began to deteriorate rapidly at the beginning of World...
...time the department's physical set-up was more than adequate. Now, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, the only feasible solution would be to rip down Stillman and construct a combination infirmary and health center. His proposed site is between Dunster and Holyoke on the ground now taken up by Cronin's, Arthur Parker's, Cahaly's, and a parking...
Whistler's Grandmother (by Robert Finch) is almost as bad as its title. A young saloonkeeper, whose singer fiancée craves a wholesome family background, hires a lovable old rip to pretend to be his grandmother. She soon turns the backroom-and the boys in it-into a God-Bless-Our-Home Victorian parlor and makes every one so happy that, when the truth comes out, they all vote to go on living...
Letter-writers to the Alumni Bulletin in the spring of 1946 were wroth indeed--48 columns wroth, in fact, with amounts of outrage, protest, and indignation thrown in. That spring, it seems, the University had decided to rip down the ancient, tradition-mellowed Dana-Palmer House and erect Lamont Library on its site...