Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep-set windows admit the weak northern light just as they did nearly a century ago; the oak and walnut floors gleam from years of polishing. And the statuary from Italy, along with the period paintings from the U.S., still mirrors the comfortable Victorian world of a prosperous Vermont manufacturer...
...Sarge, baby, you're a real swinger," cried Murray the K, hoisting his Beatle boots onto Sargent Shriver's walnut conference table. What was Murray the K doing in the office of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity? Well, he had an idea for reaching the U.S.'s more than a million school dropouts and unemployed kids with a TV program that would really grab them where they lived. Where they lived, said Murray, was with the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers and Cannibal and the Headhunters. And in between sets, Murray would...
...Plaque. Rivers' chief complaint is that McNamara has, in many of his administrative decisions, usurped the rights of Congress. On the chairman's rostrum in his committee room he has placed a walnut plaque, inscribed in gilt lettering "U.S. Const.-Art. 1-Sec. 8. The Congress shall have Power . . . to raise and support Armies . . . provide and maintain a Navy . . . make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces...
Obote went straight to the Kenya State House, talked to Kenyatta all afternoon and all the next morning. When the press was finally called into the walnut-paneled conference room, Obote was the picture of contrition. Silently, he sat at Kenyatta's side while the old man-wearing a jaunty red rose in his lapel-read a "joint communique...
...color sets for less than $300, and RCA last week temporarily cut the list price of its cheapest set from $400 to $380 in a one-shot promotion. These stripped-down, metal-encased models do not move as fast as the higher-priced ones; the hottest sellers are the walnut or mahogany models that have such popular accessories as remote controls and automatic demagnetizers and sell for $500 or more...