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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President traces his ties to the old homestead through two Puseys who left England in 1682 on a boat carrying William Penn. Exactly which branch of the family tree the President sprouted from, however, is not definitely known. Official Administration sources describe the relationship as "rather vague...
...even if the latter day Puseys can not trace their family tree, an accurate description of the manor's history and the activities of some men who lived there is contained in Law School textbook by Professors Casner and Leach entitled "Cases and Texts on Property." The books notes that the Puseys performed their outstanding feat by remaining in control of the family manor for nearly 900 years, surviving the War of the Roses and finally World War I only to be ruined by the depression in 1933. As Professors Casner and Leach note with grim efficiency, "Pusey manor...
...building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more of the unsightly "snags" (tree stumps) left by the 1947 Bar Harbor fire, making up the annual deficit of the Seal Harbor library, encouraging the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society to keep a neat village green and to provide plenty of parking space. Constantly he is on the phone to friends and associates, asking questions about...
...Nigger Lovers." In two distant and different Southern small towns last week hell and high water almost came. In Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,000) white mobs rioted in the tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
Shadows on the Water Garden. Embassy workers will look out into an enclosed court and water garden, screened over with metal-mesh aluminum to break the sunlight and give the effect of light filtering through tree branches. "With the courtyard," Stone points out. "the building will also get cross ventilation when it is not necessary to use the air conditioning." To set .off the building, Stone is using "another Oriental device," a pool to reflect the structure...