Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's White House, decided to do things in her own noisy way. Instead of shifting all the junk from one place to another, she advertised a garage sale, opened the doors to her Georgetown establishment and attracted a block-long line of some 2,500 eager souvenir hunters. Barbara offered such items as: a leopard-skin rug ($60), a bathtub full of used cosmetics (two for 5?), a 125-piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls on" ($15), some plastic table mats (25? each), some old birth-control...
...CUNARD WHITE STAR QUADRUPLE-SCREW LINER QUEEN MARY 340 pages. New York Graphic Society. $19.95. A facsimile reprint of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder souvenir edition, which was first published in 1936 to commemorate the maiden run of Britain's most beloved seagoing queen. Staggering in its detail: deck plans, photographs and descriptions of machinery, interiors of accommodations. A brief, highly literate biography carries the great liner through World War II service as a troop transport (it accidentally rammed and sank a British cruiser in 1942), and into its sad second life as a tourist attraction in Long...
Unfortunately, the valley's treasure may also soon be lost. It is now being threatened by an onslaught of tourists and souvenir hunters who use chalk or abrasive stone on the engravings to make them stand out more clearly for snapshots. Some vandals have even hacked engravings out of rock faces or carted off entire slabs. "If this keeps up," De Lumley warns, "in 50 years the Valley of Marvels, the most remarkable cultural treasure of the Alps, will have been destroyed...
...average Democrat, grumbles one businessman, "brought a set of underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth, who ran a souvenir booth in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel last week. Two exceptions: button sellers did a brisk business, and some delicatessens did well during the Democratic gathering. "You would be surprised how many Democrats came in to buy bread and cold cuts to take to their rooms," says one counterman...
...Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. In May, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...