Word: southeast
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Shawn A. MacDonald '88 says he will use his Rockefeller--which he calls his "dream fellowship"--to travel to Africa and Indonesia. While in Indonesia, MacDonald say he will work in a refugee camp for Southeast Asians. He chose the Rockefeller, which is restricted to Harvard seniors, because he wanted a fellowship that would allow him to work and travel rather than study...
Another team of developers, Shirley and Alan Kahana, is renovating El Pasaje, a historic building once known as the best bordello in the Southeast. It was also home to the Cherokee Club, a famous hangout for cigar magnates and their friends, which over the years played host to such renowned lovers of the leaf as Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Winston Churchill. The Kahanas have restored the magnificent ballroom on the second floor and are converting the "gentlemen's hotel" portion into office space...
When George Poveromo goes fishing, he doesn't fool around. Entering precise coordinates into the computerized navigation system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves...
...million of Viet Nam's 63.5 million people may be threatened with starvation because of economic mismanagement and poor harvests. Last week Hanoi took a step that may not only lighten the burden on a desperately ailing economy but also make Viet Nam less of a pariah in Southeast Asia. The government announced that by the end of the year it would withdraw 50,000 Vietnamese troops from neighboring Kampuchea as part of a total, phased pullout of 120,000 troops...
Both men designed buildings for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Bunshaft conceived his best and best-known work, Manhattan's Lever House, just as the United Nations headquarters, designed in large part by Niemeyer, was going up a few blocks southeast. Both men were the quintessentially Establishment architects of their generation. And, with success, both tended toward mannerism, became immune to tempering influences and got carried away with the thrills of go-go grandiosity...