Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...
...Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his private war against the state of Israel...
Before leaving Washington for a tour of Williamsburg, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Miami, Frondizi hosted a dinner for Ike and Mamie at the Argentine embassy on Q Street. Noticing Ike chuckling to himself, Frondizi asked what the joke was about. Ike replied that he was thinking of the toast he was going to give: he had decided to say it in Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente...
...Washington's National Airport by President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In three days in Washington, Frondizi will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, flying trips to Detroit and Chicago...
Even without a program, theatergoers would have had no trouble figuring out where they were. The scene was clearly the familiar slum section of Williamsburg, Tenn., with its long rows of dusty souls and crumbling emotions tilting crazily against a dusky sky. But there had been changes. In Period of Adjustment, which opened last week at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse, Playwright Tennessee Williams repaired no cracking masonry in his familiar dramatic neighborhood, but at least he slapped on a coat of whitewash...