Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America grew a little larger last week. The Northern Marianas, a group of Western Pacific islands (one of the best known: Tinian, where the Enola Gay took off for its atom-bomb run to Hiroshima in 1945), officially became a commonwealth of the U.S., and its 17,000 residents became U.S. citizens...
...insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German...
...Republican Charles Percy of Illinois, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He boasted afterward that he had smoothed the way for reopening the SALT talks, which offended both Carter and Reagan aides. Percy also told Soviet leaders that he favored the establishment of a Pales tinian state, even if it were led by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization - a step that is opposed by both Carter and Reagan...