Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Complex being planned for the 12-acre site will include a museum, archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. For the present, all the memorabilia, books and papers are stored in the Federal Records Center in Waltham, one of a dozen depositories for bureaucratic red tape dotting the United States. There, in a temperature and humidity controlled cavern which makes the Widener stacks look like a tot lot, the government has stored about 10 million pages of Kennedy's papers, along with 2 million pages from the Democratic National Committee. There...
Whatever the reason for their attraction to the show, Star Trek fans, or "Trekies" as they call themselves, are a devoted lot. In between watching Star Trek reruns they keep themselves busy collecting Star Trek magazines, books, bumper stickers, wall posters, pendants, spacecraft models and assorted memorabilia from the show. Most of the items are sold by Roddenberry's firm, Star Trek Enterprises, but the 24 or so Star Trek magazines, or "fanzines," are put out by the fans themselves...
TRADE IN Star Trek memorabilia is brisk, and even the Smithsonian Institute has gotten into the game, securing a copy of the pilot show and several props. For the noninstitutional collector-investor, film clips are highly popular and those showing the usually stoic Mr. Spock smiling are worth their weight in Martian gold. (Publicity photos are also popular, but some of the more ambitious fans photograph the show for themselves while it's on their television screens. Another big seller is sound recordings of the show, and Trekies have been known to memorize entire scripts. Most popular, however...
THERE is a man in this South Jersey farmhouse. He is more remembered than real, his presence captured in random memorabilia-a plastic model of his F-105 fighter plane poised on a living-room shelf, a duffel bag of uniforms at the top of the stairs, a portrait by his wife hung in their bedroom. There are less direct reminders too: a grease-splattered map of Viet Nam on a kitchen wall; a dog-eared volume of an encyclopedia spread open on a table-the subject is Viet...
...Plans depicts a semicircular building occupying the center of a 12-acre site that would house a memorial to the late President a library holding his papers and memorabilia and the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics...