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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 14, 1977
'Goulash Communism' Savored |
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With much of the Soviet bloc troubled these days by economic woes and unruly intellectuals, things remain "reasonably good" within the more liberal and relaxed brand of "goulash communism" practiced here, a Hungarian writer says.The hotels here in the capital are jammed and last year the number of tourists, many of them from elsewhere in Eastern Europe, almost equaled the country's 11 million population.The crowded shops... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 4, 1977
High On a Hill, A Contemporary Castle in the Air |
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LOOKING UP the grand staircase of the Harris house, you expect Douglas Fairbanks Jr., rapier in hand, to come swashbuckling down, Basil Rathbone close behind him.Not many houses these days are romantic. But the great hall of the Harris house has all the excitement and spectacle found in the great spaces of a castle. Like castles on the Rhine or the Danube, sited to be defended, the Harris house is set on a hill high above the countryside, its location a defense against the traffic...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 4, 1977
WHAT PRICE HISTORY? |
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WHEN the scruffy, sunburned young people were first noticed sifting the dirt along Flint Run near Fron Royal, some of the locals thought they were crazy hippies panning for gold. This stream that meanders through the rolling countryside to meet the South Fork of the Shenandoah River had rarely yielded anything more noteworthy than an occasional beer can, so people had no way of suspecting that the prospectors were on the trail of a yellow mineral rarer than gold, nor that the lode they were... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 2, 1977
Smith to Consider U.S.-British Call To 'Surrender' |
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The United States and Britain called upon Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith today to "surrender" power peacefully and make way for the establishment of a black-majority government elected on the basis of one-man, one-vote by the end of next year.Presenting him with a seven-point plan for a resolution of the 12-year-old Rhodesia dispute, the two western nations asked Smith to hand the reins of government back to Britain, the former colonial ruler here, and let it...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 28, 1977
The 13-cent "Surrender at Saratoga" commemorative |
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The 13-cent "Surrender at Saratoga" commemorative, scheduled for issuance Oct. 7, will be similar to the two cent stamp issued 50 years ago to mark the same historic occasion. This year's stamp, however, will present a cropped version of John Trumbull's painting entitled "The Surrender of Burgoyne" stressing the central figures.The new commemorative will be issued Oct. 7, the 200th anniversary of the battle (the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 28, 1977
Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My |
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COMING INTO style, along with practical leather furniture, brass and glass tables, is another catagory of household furnishings that might be called Funny Furniture, or perhaps Fauna Furniture. The Washington area, if not exactly a Funhouse full of Funny Furniture, has at least a fair amount to show - some in places you wouldn't expect.In Glen Echo, in a remarkable house with a tower bedroom with one wall only 18 inches high, Jane MacKenzie makes lions, tigers, alligators and,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 24, 1977
Printers End Strike at Financial Times |
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The Financial Times, regarded by many as Britain's best daily newspaper, is scheduled to reappear Wednesday after a 19-day printers' strike that illustrates the kinds of labor-relations dispute often seen here.Early today, management and union negotiators ended the quarrel that produced Fleet Street's longest work stoppage in a generation. But the deal actually settles nothing. Instead, it calls for the kind of negotiations that could have prevented the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 20, 1977
Egypt Builds Suez Tunnel Large Enough for Tanks |
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When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat returns from vacation after the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, one of his first official acts will be an inspection trip to one of the most ambitious and politically sensitive construction projects in the Middle East - a motor vehicle tunnel under the Suez Canal.The tunnel is to be the first land link between the Sinai Peninsula and the rest of Egypt since the destruction of a railroad bridge in 1967. It has been designed to carry two lanes of traffic as...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 14, 1977
A Charm Buried By Commercialism |
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NEWSPAPERMAN Ernie Pyle, visiting Gatlinburg, Tenn., in 1940, found that gateway to the Smokies to be "an amazingly charming little city . . . all just like you'd want a mountain resort to be."Pyle would barely recognize gaudy Gatlinburg today. Whatever charm it once had is smothered in crass commercialism that makes it seem like the Coney Island of the New South. And with 8,541,500 Americans seeking escape from their own crowded cities last year in...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 13, 1977
New Canal Pact Hailed By Carter |
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President Carter called on Congress and the American people yesterday to accept new treaties governing the Panama canal and predicted that, if ratified, they would form "the foundation for a new era in our relations with all of Latin America."In his first public comments on the subject since American and Panamanian negotiators reached basic agreement on new treaties Wednesday, the President stressed that the agreements would "fully preserve"...
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