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...letters Eliot's instructions about the buildings. In any event, the money was obtained, and the five buildings were built--in the original gray Dorset marble, as it turned out. They are now the centerpiece of the Med School, solemnly dominating the grassy central quadrangle that they surround...
...Sharm el Sheikh, which controls the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. But in a unique and symbolically important part of the agreement, Israel will share parts of the existing road inside the Egyptian corridor until its own road is completed. In any event, Israeli forces will virtually surround the oilfield, which will be a material hostage to Egypt's good intentions...
...Freshman Union--a huge building which caters primarily to freshmen and whose high ceilings and long tables emphasize noise and impersonalism--sets much of the Yard's tone. The Harvard presidents whose portraits surround the main dining room look down disapprovingly on the chaos and food fights which frequently disrupt meals there. Dining rooms in the Quad are smaller and more intimate, with more round tables and many more upperclassmen, and the noise level rarely reaches the pitches it does in the Union...
...felt worfully out of place. The seens was surround enough that no one had noticed my suit. I looked around and saw that people's hairlines were receding their faces were wrinkling up as they stood there. It took a few more doses of spirits (at a buck a shot) to bring reality back within certain acceptable tolerances...
Lome, Togo--Back of the wide yellow beach and its palm trees that are your first impression, there are the woven-bamboo shacks that surround every city I saw in Africa. The huts are fenced-off into compounds with communal cooking and eating areas...