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...native town are as bright to him as the paths of heaven." For nearly 40 years, the majority of Hasidic Jews in the U.S. have sought to make paths of heaven out of the streets of a grimy corner of New York City: the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn...
...restore Williamsburg, Va., to the red brick and clapboard authenticity of the 18th century, the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. laid out $70 million, but even that was not enough to finish the job. Now the philanthropist's family is dipping into the bank to help one of his pet projects. In the next five years, said Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of the board of Colonial Williamsburg, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund will ante up $2,000,000 to finance the restoration of such buildings as the John Custis house, the Blair-Prentis general store, and early America's first...
Prior to that, Miss King was assistant Dean of Women at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va, and was assistant director of the College Union. State University of New York, New Palts...
...Gloss, who has become the historian of the Cornhill, has vanced several proposals for the of the most important in the area. The most ambitions suggested, proposes the removal of main structures to the Fanuell in Dock Square which would constituted an historic reservation to that of Williamsburg, Virgin...
Cuba made the first dent in John Kennedy's self-confidence. When the invasion first began to go sour, the President called his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was making a speech in Williamsburg, Va., at the time. "Why don't you come back," said Jack, "and let's discuss it." Bobby flew back and, in the midst of crisis, his was the profile pictured against the late-burning White House lights. In Cuba's immediate aftermath, it was Bobby who moved into the White House, spearheaded an investigation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...