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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 13, 1977
Apartment Hotel Conversion Sparks Growing Controversy |
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A growing controversy over the conversion of apartments into hybrid "apartment hotels" is the latest issue to spark dissension among tenants, landlords and divisions of the District government.Owners maintain that apartment hotels fill a need for short- and medium-term housing, rescue inner-city buildings from decay, give them added income needed for repairs and bring a new vibrancy to the doowntown area.Opponents charge that the conversions are a convenient...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 12, 1977
Brown Proclaims California's Entry Into the Space Age |
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With one eye on the earth and the other on the earthly benefits of aerospace employment, California Gov. Edmund J. (Jerry) Brown Jr. today proclaimed the advent of the space age.Standing before an banner that declared, "California and the Space Age - an era of possibilities." Brown invoked the spirit of Columbus, fear of the Soviets and the specter of rising unemployment as he called for California to lead the nation into "the everlasting frontier of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 7, 1977
Why Teachers Quit |
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Laura adamantly believes that something more should be taught in school than reading, writing and arithmetic. She says that unless someone tells the students and their parents that school is work - sometimes hard work - you're not teaching the students correctly. Someone has to tell the students that you never get something for nothing.But, no, Laura says, the current mode is the let-me-entertain-you teacher.And she says that's not for her. She calls it...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 4, 1977
A piece of city's convention center history |
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"Why didn't you write about the old convention hall?" asked Joe Phillips, a former D.C. police officer whose police equipment store might be razed to build a new convention center near Mt. Vernon Square.No, not the Washington Auditorium, which was built in the 1920s, said Phillips. He meant the old convention hall.Phillips, who is in his 70s and no fan of the proposal to build a new convention center was talking about the Old Convention Hall Market...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 2, 1977
Widewater Bright and Shining Again |
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Widewater, the beautiful place with the beautiful name, is wide once more.Hurricane Agnes saved one of her crulest blows for this remarkable stretch of the C&O Canal below Great Falls, where the water is deep and clear, and bass, crapple and bluegill are plentiful.Agnes lifted levels in the summer of 1972 where the rushing water barely passed below Chain Bridge and wavelets were lapping up and over K Street in Georgetown.Tree trunks and other debris were carried into...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 31, 1977
Beware the Energy Puritans |
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I SOMETIMES HAVE the feeling that America is one vast playground and that the Americans are more and more using it like one. In order to use it, since it is so vast, they need a lot of gasoline. It is therefore a little absurd for any administration to suggest that it is only a few economies in the use of energy which it is asking of the American people, when the only thing that would have any significant effect would be a sacrifice of an entire way of life.James Schlesinger said recently...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 31, 1977
A 13-cent commemorative stamp, marking the 200th |
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A 13-cent commemorative stamp, marking the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the Articles of Confederation, will be issued Sept. 30 at York, Pa., according to an announcement made yesterday by the U.S. Postal Service.The vignette depicts five members of the Continental Congress in session around a conference table. What was then York Town had become the capital of the new nation in September 1777 when the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia as British forces under Gen. Howe...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 17, 1977
The Games People Play In Singles Bars |
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FIRST SHE CALLED and later we mer, but most of what she told me she told me on the phone that first day. Meeting her was important, though, because then I got to see what she looked like. She was short and her hair was cut short and she was, as she said, 20 pounds overweight -- looking. I have to tell you, like all the easy marks of days gone by. The difference now was that she was 41 and the mother of four and twice divorce, and you would have thought, too old to dream. She...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 13, 1977
Carter Urges Production Funds for Neutron A - Weapons |
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President Carter said yesterday he sees no danger that present "tough and public debates" with the Soviet Union mean the end of attempts to reduce tensions between Washington and Moscow.The Soviet Union is "exaggerating the disagreements," perhaps for "some political reasons." Carter told his news conference. He said Soviet public statements "attacking me personally, or our own nation's good...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 12, 1977
SAME OLD STORY |
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Name a President, Richard Nixon. Name a man who made millions selling groceries. Joseph Danzansky. Name a congressman. Bernie Sisk. Add a novelist. James Michener, and an impish baseball man. Bill Veeck. Bring in charges of piracy, intimations of a double-cross. Ring up some big numbers: $12 million, $72 million, $120 million. Get Marvin Hamlisch to do the score and we'll take this show to Broadway: "Dear Old Senators, Come Home. But Don't Bring Charlie...
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