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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 3, 1977
The Once and Present Chastleton: Bustling Crossroads of City Faces |
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Like an invincible fortress she sits at the corner of 16th and R Streets NW - The Chastleton - girded in pearly stone, whimsical gargoyles and cathedral windows.In its near-60 years The Chastleton has had its moments: as a swank address for civil servants: as a curiosity - a Gothic castle next to a temple copied from an Egyptian mausoleum has always drawn stares, an as a romantic hideway.Gen.Douglas MacArthur used a back elevator to visit the mistress he stashed there. Other...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 1, 1977
Some Who Fled War Find Assimilating Difficult in U.S. |
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They were the flotsam and jetsam of war, the losers who left home rather than treat with the conquerors - 144,758 of them by latest official count, refugees from Indochina now struggling with a new world..They have moved to the United States, though they are not Americans yet, not even permanent residents here. "Parolee" is their official status - a vague term that scares many of the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians who carry it. Some feel they are...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 26, 1977
Israelis Fear U.S. Policy Drift on Middle East Settlement |
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Israel is becoming increasingly concerned over what it perceives as a subtle drift in American policy statements that may be encouraging the Arabs to believe that they can insist on more concessions than an elected Israeli government can deliver.Recent statements by the Carter administration about Palestinians and borders have usually been explained away later by State Department spokesmen in terms that are compatible with Israel's basic position, and there is no doubt here...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 27, 1977
Building Boom Hits West End With a Sour Note |
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Multi-million dollar high-rise development is starting to spread across Washington's recently dormant West End, between Washington Circle and Georgetown north of Pennsylvania Avenue.New office buildings, apartment houses and hotels will soon go up where obsolete industrial plants small shops and other old buildings once stood.The new construction promises profits for developers and businessmen, increased tax revenues for the city, new housing for the affluent and some...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 8, 1977
Cautious Israel in No Hurry to Reach Accord With Arabs |
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President Carter, in his talks with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, may find that Israel does not share the sense of urgency to reach a Middle East settlement that is felt in the Arab world or in Washington.Israel is prepared to reconvene the Geneva peace talks and to take other steps. But President Carter, in the first of several meetings he has planned with Middle Easter leaders in the coming months, is not likely to find the Israelis very ready to make the kinds of concessions that the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 14, 1977
Failing Franchises: The Sobering Side of Pro Sports |
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"It's been almost a month now since we've been paid. I'm married, I have a family, a home here in Cleveland and a cottage back in Canada and bills to pay."To go out there and work your heart out and not be paid anything, especially with the rumors that the team is going to fold, it really does bug you."Bob Stewart, Cleveland Barons We are accustomed these days to hearing about $8 zillion no-cut contracts and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 13, 1977
Vance Mideast Trip Aims at Long-Range Arab-Israel Accord |
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Seventeen months ago, in September, 1975, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew home from the last of his Middle East shuttles after successfully negotiating an Israeli-Egyptian disengagement in the Sinai, a pact he hailed as a step on the road to eventual peace.On MOnday night his successor, Cyrus R. Vance, boards a U.S. military jet at Andrews Air Force Base to continue the quest, but with a very different strategy and mode of operation.For all his tactical brilliance,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 5, 1977
Shortly |
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Investment of some Muhammed Ali money in this Washington area seems now to focus on Northern Virginia, where the premier fighting man turned-entrepreneur showed himself at the set for purchase by Ali for about $1.8 million. Additionally, he is expected to be the eventual owner of some of the Jefferson Mews townhouses that went through foreclosure by Virginia National Bank and then were resold to varied investors.But it was Ali's appearance at the three-story Babson building at...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 22, 1977
Louis A. Miller, 54, Navy Patent Counsel |
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Louis A. Miller, 54, chief patent counsel for the Naval Sea Systems Command since 1959, died Wednesday at his home in Springfield, Md., after a heart attack.Born in Washington, he received an engineering degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He served in the Pacific as a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.After the war, Mr. Miller joined the U.S. Patent Office as a patent examiner and attended Georgetown University Law Center at night, where he earned...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 2, 1977
The Collectors |
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Quantities of two Bicentennial commemorative stamps issued in strip form have been announced by the United States Postal Service. There have been 218,955,000 of the Spirit of '76 stamps distributed, and 204,035,000 of the Declaration of Independence adhesives in panes of 50.These totals, on the surface, do not indicate anything unusual, but the number of strips has a decided impact on potential value. As an example, there can only be 40,807,000 unsevered strips of four of the...
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