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...interest loan from HUD will supply 65 per cent of the remaining funds. Private sources including Boston Edison Co., and the Office of Energy Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will fund the rest of the cost...
...commissioned the well-known Communist Artist Diego Rivera to paint a mural for the center. When a likeness of Lenin began to emerge on the wall, Rockefeller hastily sacked Rivera and destroyed the offending mural. It was replaced by a more appropriate work, featuring Abe Lincoln and Thomas Edison...
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...papal deeds. We always tried, however, to find the detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul VI often doffed his cassock and worked in shirtsleeves...
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