Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something about Washington divests diplomats of their aura of glamor. The sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
Reading, study and office space will be available in the new structure, which will have three floors of stack room below ground and two stories above the surface. A gift of $275,000 from the James Foundation of New York City has made immediate construction possible...
...income side of the balance sheet, there is much that might be questioned though very little room for change. Once the State has approved new forms of revenue, the City may choose not to use them, but it cannot employ any other taxes not approved; thus Wagner, if he wants money to spend, must raise it in the way the legislature has prescribed. About half of the additional $125 million revenue will come from fairly straightforward increases in the taxes on the gross receipts of businesses and public utilities operating in the City...
Academic assistance is a two-way street. Widener Reading Room has provided the scene for many inexpensive rendezvous meetings justified by the desire for scholarship. Harvard students cannot justify the Cliffies' higher marks on the basis of assistance rendered, since the assistance is just as likely to come in the opposite direction...
...standards set by the men. Robert Skinner's sets, on the other hand, are outstanding. His oft-visited street presents a facade of the town's buildings, and the facade lifts for the scenes taking place in the dentist's office, a peasant hut, a hotel room, the town prison, and a restaurant across the border. Each of these sets is imaginative, and lends solid support to the scenes therein...