Word: waterfront
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...Alien Waterfront. Mrs. Kennedy and her advisers decided to restrict acquisitions of paintings and sculptures to Americana. Under the criteria laid down, each work should ideally be by a U.S. artist and of a U.S. subject, and related in some way to the White House or the presidency, or at least to some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter...
...mainland. Largely by trading parts of the Dillingham's huge Hawaii land holdings, Lowell hopes to maneuver into the big-time land business on the mainland. He recently swapped 118 acres of sugar cane for a luxury apartment house in Dallas and 27 acres of Honolulu waterfront for one acre over looking San Francisco's Union Square, where the aging Plaza Hotel will be razed for an office building. The corporation intends to build a $26 million, 43-story office building on the downtown lands of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank. On the shores of California...
...Last week, on the eve of the tenth anniversary celebration of his 26th of July movement, he grabbed about the only thing left to take-aside from the big naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Castro "expropriated" the $1,200,000, seven-story former U.S. embassy building on the Havana waterfront...
...gateway to Europe (its watery fingers reach into every Common Market country except Italy), Rotterdam last year handled 25,000 ocean-going ships and 250,000 barges. Unlike New York's spread-out and orderly waterfront, its 17-mile river route to the North Sea is a forest of cranes, derricks and masts through which ships of all sizes confidently move in every direction. Along its banks are such big oil refiners as Shell, Caltex, Esso, Mobil and British Petroleum, which have made Rotterdam one of the world's main oil-refining centers. The port boasts the Verolme...
...Sansom short story is a piece of artful thimblerigging. There are eerily improbable confrontations: the lonely writer who discovers the blonde girl of his dreams on a Norwegian waterfront and stares deep into her dreaming eyes only to discover that she is blind and that the eyes are shiny glass. The cheerful salesman who meets an escaped lion on the deserted pathway of a zoo and is at first terrified and then forever mortified that the lion turns disdainfully away, rejecting him as a meal...