Word: stairways
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...tradition of little girls, Amy loves mysteries, and the White House comes equipped with a secret stairway -you push a special panel in the wall -and its own ghost. In quest of the Lincoln ghost, Amy and Classmate Claudia Sanchez, daughter of a Chilean embassy cook, spent a night in the huge Lincoln bed, while Mary Fitzpatrick, the reprieved prisoner who is Amy's nurse, slept on a pallet on the floor. And, grins Rosalynn, "of course they heard the ghost...
...steel and glass structure lie two inner courtyards, paneled in striking blond oak and covered by plexidome skylights. The galleries are built around the courts, with internal windows that open onto them. Sunlight streams in everywhere. The details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house. As President Brewster observes, "It's rather remarkable that such a building could give you such a low-key, domesticated feeling...
...descended the steep stairway into what to all external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...
...staircase certainly makes late evening bull sessions possible on a much larger scale. Around 11 p.m. doors invariably seem to open, and crowds soon form to discuss whatever Harvard freshmen discuss when they're tired of writing Expos papers. A while back someone discovered that the stairway is perfectly suited for games of vertical football, with each floor pitted against the other three. The evening games may keep the students away from their Gov 30 reading, but they also seem to bring most of them closer together as friends. "We have a very socially contained community," notes Philip A. Sisson...
Almost forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...