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That beach and then some. Provided, that is, that a young lawyer named Thomas Tureen can convince the courts to accept his theory about the Nonintercourse Act of 1790. This much amended act states that "any title to Indian land obtained without federal approval is null and void." Tureen's theory is that this act invalidates many subsequent land sales throughout New England. In Mashpee, specifically, a class-action filed in August demands the return of virtually the entire town to the Wampanoag. The suit, however, would allow householders to stay as long as they paid "fair rental value...
...Tureen. Yet artists managed to, at first by subterfuge. A sculptor might rent a loft for $100 or less a month, clean it out and install a folding bed that could disappear against the wall if a building inspector called. He had no security of tenure. The typical habit of SoHo slumlords, which persists today, was to offer no lease, wait for the artist to spend a few thousand dollars renovating the loft, and then arbitrarily double the rent. The pattern of exploitation worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already...
...became Maternus' sole owner, the restaurant's political era began. Konrad Adenauer liked to greet Ria, a fellow Rhinelander, in local dialect; he became a regular. Successor Ludwig Erhard became another steady; the day he succeeded der Alte as Chancellor, Ria sent him a Wedgwood tureen brimful of his favorite split pea soup. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who prefers to dine at the Schaumburg, has not maintained the custom...
...quest for the artifacts of yesteryear, which has been indulged in by many Americans for years, has now reached epidemic proportions. Behold! A hot-air grate, raised on a walnut stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact...
...Tapering Off. A frequent commuter to Washington, Gardner served as consultant to a tureen-full of alphabetized Government agencies, won the Air Force's Exceptional Service medal, its highest civilian award, for his advisory work. As chairman of the Educational Panel of the Rockefeller Broth ers Special Studies Project, he wrote a report whose title was later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That...