Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once the home of wealthy planters, a gracious land of pillared mansions and fertile cotton fields. Today it is a gritty collection of cattle farms and dying towns living in a hand-me-down past. When the present intrudes in the form of civil rights demonstrations, its people are apt to react with savage intensity. It was in Lowndes County that Detroit...
Beaches are a matter of personal taste. Under the impression that popularity spells quality, the timid tourist is apt to want his beaches garnished with multicolored parasols, well-lotioned nymphs, and even a lifeguard thrown in for good measure. But a few intrepid travelers still like their beaches au naturel, and more and more are discovering that some of the most beautiful, unspoiled beaches in the world are to be found between two remote little towns named Antalya and Anamur on the south coast of Turkey. Framed against the Taurus mountain range that rises sharply to the north, and edged...
...word Calcutta to most Americans, and they think of saried Indians bathing in the Ganges and sacred cows basking in the middle of dirty thoroughfares. But say Calcutta to the member of a golf club, and he is apt to look nervously to either side and whisper, "Shhhh! How did you know we were having one this year?" Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team...
Rotten to the Core. Halfway through this eccentric British comedy about a pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
Surprisingly, few swappers ever feel swindled. Because location and savings are the principal considerations, a twobedroom flat in midtown Chicago might be considered fair exchange for a 30-room chateau in France. And with their own houses being held as collateral, few vacationers are apt to tear their temporary homes apart. Explains Mrs. Jeannette Spensley, who traded her six-room Albuquerque home for three rooms in Torrance, Calif.: "There's a kind of adventurous spirit among those of us doing this. You put your trust in people, and they in you. It's the golden rule taking potluck...