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...idea for USA Today, which now occupies 160,000 sq. ft. of a Rosslyn, Va., office tower overlooking the capital's monuments, was nurtured about three years ago in a bungalow mere blocks away from Neuharth's home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; the Gannett team worked behind windows coated with reflective paper to discourage the curious. By April 1981 the plan had progressed to prototype issues, which were mailed to public figures, journalists and financial analysts for comment. Some of the reaction was pungent. Publisher Joe Murray of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Lufkin, Texas, News returned his dummy issue...
...century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor-and its appeal to amateur and professional alike-was neatly expressed by Paul Sandby's tranquil view of Rosslyn Castle, North Berwick, with an aristocratic-looking lady on the riverbank painting with the aid of a camera lucida...
...Motor Sports Club recently elected Peter G. Sachs '61, of Kirkland House and Stamford, Conn., president for next year. Other members of the new executive committee are Rosslyn P. Harris '61, of Eliot House and Litchfield, Conn., vice-president, and J. Grey Jones, Jr. '61, of Eliot House and St. Louis, Mo., secretary-treasurer...
...political barometer in this long-Democratic (since 1936) area. More than 5,000 had ignored the sixth World Series game, instead were gathered to meet his plane. Along the 18-mile route into the city, the President, in his bubble-domed limousine, saw jammed roadsides and signs ("Rosslyn Farms 99.4% for Ike") pointing his way. In downtown Pittsburgh 100,000 lined the curbs. Remembering triumphal tours of Franklin Roosevelt. Pittsburghers said Ike's turnout rivaled the best mustered for F.D.R. Gasped a GOPolitician: "This can't be an organized demonstration. There is no organization to organize...
...Rosslyn Roy Range, another G.I., so lackadaisical in practice that he was almost shipped home, soared 26ft. 4⅛ in. for a games broad-jump record...