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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle; see BUTT...
...Afternoon Concert. Hartman--Symphony #6 (D) DL 9861; Handoshkin--Var. on Theme (Mon) 2019; Benevoli--Hymn to St. Rupert (E) LC 3035; Berkeley--Trio (W) Wn 18515; Weber--Piano Concerto #1 (V) VRY 8150; Ravel--Violin Sonata (M) Mg. 50089; Ditterskorf--Concerto for Violin and Double Bass (HSLP) Hayd. 9052; Dvorak--Quintet in G Major...
After twelve minutes' bitter combat, the limousine bucked ahead, bound for the tomb of Simón Bolívar, where Nixon was scheduled to lay a wreath. A block from the tomb the car suddenly veered off into a side street. Glancing through a shattered side window, Nixon could see a mob of 3,000 rioters, mostly high school students, waiting for him. (Days later, policemen found 400 Molotov cocktails cached in the basement of a nearby house.) The limousine sped off to the safety of the U.S. embassy residence...
Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...
John A. Simourian: Leverett; Fr. and Varsity Football; Capt of Fr. and Var. baseball; Undergrad. Ath. Council; Jr. Usher; Pi Eta Club; Hasty Pudding...