Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost nine months after the presidential election, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President is still humming along, rather eerily, in a second-floor sanctum at 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, less than a block from -the White House. Former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans still reports for work as finance committee chairman, although he cut his own $60,000 salary in half after he was indicted last spring for perjury and conspiracy. Chief Public Relations Man DeVan Shumway still collects $36,000 a year. He sits in his private office watching the Ervin hearings on a portable TV and grinding...
Communist Party chief invited over eleven Moscow-based U.S. correspondents, including TIME'S John Shaw. It was not only the first time that the newsmen had ever met with Brezhnev but the first time that they had been inside the inner sanctum of Soviet power. In wry allusion to how the Western press sometimes refers to his office, Brezhnev explained that he wanted to help his visitors unravel "the mysterious unknown wafting above the Kremlin...
Some of, the Crimson's best talent walked out of the Sanctum after the election never to return. Tempers had run high, and the election had swung on a few key votes. Some of the business board's electors had not been seen on Plympton Street for months. After the decision, eleven editors departed to found their own paper...
...death of Fabian Fall '10, the President, in the summer of 1909 shocked his contemporaries, for the young Englishman had become a popular figure in his two years at Harvard. A marble bust of Fall stood in a niche in the Sanctum of the Plympton Street building until the late Sixties, when it was removed by person or persons unknown...
...hostilities to light for when he described as "the forces of democracy." His sad and early death was one of 15 fatalities sustained by The Crimson in the trenches of France and his name was commemorated by the dedication of a library in his honor, unveiled in the Sanctum in the Spring...