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Inside Room 832 of Washington's Shoreham Building the carpet had not yet been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
...lazy countryside around the minuscule village of Sart in Turkey has been the scene of frenetic excavations. Under the field directorship of George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Classival Antiquities at the Fogg Museum, archaeological experts from Harvard and Cornell have led Turkish workmen in an attempt to unearth the remains of the famed ancient metropolis of Sardis...
...fact that next year's Olympic Games will add another 100,000 agile foreigners to the daily traffic scrimmage, Rome's city hall decreed its biggest postwar street construction program: four huge underpasses, hopefully scheduled for completion by next July. Clearing the way for the underpasses, workmen chopped down hundreds of towering trees along the banks of the Tiber and on the fringes of Rome's biggest park, the Villa Borghese...
...continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen discovered that the Goddess of Freedom on top of the dome was coming apart at the seams, and a bronze girdle was ordered to pull her together again...
...would like him to see Levittown [Pa.], the town surrounding the Fairless plant, and see this town universally and exclusively inhabited by its workmen, and to see what those homes...