Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings looked like a motel; but no one had ever seen a motel like Western Hills. When it opens next week, it will offer road-worn motorists 200 air-conditioned rooms and super-suites (many with balconies and wood-burning fireplaces) and a kidney-shaped swimming pool surrounded by bamboo-trimmed cabanas. Guests will be able to get free ice cubes from refrigerators scattered around the motel, have meals delivered to their rooms in motor-driven carts...
Hong Kong is the neutral way station, the communications center, for almost any traveler, whatever his mission, who skirts the edge of China or passes through Mao's bamboo curtain. Onto the British-held island and peninsula pour refugees from the Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from...
...philosophy of "Do Nothing," don't fuss, let nature take its course. It was Lao-tse who inspired such axioms as "There are thirty-six ways of meeting a dilemma and the best of them is to run away." To an Oriental, this represented the wisdom of the bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance, sanitation and overall reform, it sounded like simple sloth. Faced with cultural mysteries, Westerners concocted superficial myths. The big myth about the Chinese: that they don't know how to "get things done." Upshot of such...
...Bamboo shades, glass doors, and a gray wall-to-wall rug are among the changes planned. Modern easy chairs and divans will replace the present furniture...
...There, an outbreak of 130 polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon...