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When John D. Rockefeller Jr. set out to restore the old colonial capital of Williamsburg, Va. back in 1926, he guessed the job might take as much as $5,000,000 to complete. It was a vast underestimation. For one thing, Rockefeller decided to spend $6,200,000 on accommodations for tourists. Then, to insure proper colonial atmosphere, the tracks of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. had to be moved, and all telephone and power lines buried underground. Building costs and land values started climbing. And the overall scope of the project grew; at first, Rockefeller aimed to restore only...
Last week Colonial Williamsburg Inc. reported the results of 25 years' work: almost $30 million of Rockefeller money has been spent to bring the old town back to life; 82 of the crumbling buildings have been completely restored; 341 more have been built up from scratch on old foundations-and the job is far from finished. Still on the agenda: 97 projects costing another $15 million, including a reconstruction of the first theater in colonial America, with 18th century stage machinery and props...
...received no communication from you directly while you were in Moscocw . . . The protocol was not submitted to me nor was the communiqué. I was completely in the dark on the whole conference until I requested you to come to the Williamsburg and inform me. The communiqué was released before I ever...
...before: more & more he relied on Eden to catch what Churchill's ears missed and to recall details that his mind forgot. On Churchill's first night in the capital, he sat down for a private, personal, after-dinner talk with Truman on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. Fifteen minutes later Truman sent for Acheson, and Churchill for Eden...
Today, from its permanent headquarters in Williamsburg, PBK rules over 151 chapters and 120,000 living members. It still does not recognize non-liberal-arts colleges, even such famed ones as M.I.T., and it still wields no direct power over academic affairs, even on campuses where it has chapters. But in 175 years of dangling its golden key, PBK has set a high standard for U.S. students, and by its very existence has persuaded hundreds to raise their intellectual sights...