Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England grace, allowed the Eisenhowers the privacy they had come for. On Coasters Harbor Island they settled down in the naval base's commanding officer's refurbished Quarters A, a 67-year-old, 2½-story, white brick colonial-style house whose second-floor windows overlook Narragansett Bay. The President established a routine divided between play and work in his temporary office in the base communications building 100 ft. from Quarters A. Across the bay at the venerable (67 years old) Newport Country Club he played golf, doffed his cap one day to the gallery of members...
...taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never come back to me." Columnist Herb Caen, the Boswell of the Bay, says: "They all say the same thing about him-'If only he'd settle down, he'd be wonderful'-but he wouldn't be. He's the typical mixed-up man of the century. He hasn't got a peaceful mind, and that...
Publisher Cabot (of the Back Bay Cabots), who first visited Taos as a member of a Harvard geological expedition in 1932 and soon took a summer place there, bought El Creeps nine years ago last month. Last year he moved it lock, stock and flatbed press into a pink adobe hacienda. The new location greatly improved working conditions: staffers who like drinks served with the news can walk through a door from the city room directly into a bar presided over by the mayor of Taos...
Local merchants soon learned to stock their own stores from Filene's-if they could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
...after proud townsmen had happily celebrated the opening of the first road to lead out of their community, and one civic orator had pompously puffed: "It will be no time at all until we feel the real impact of this development," thieves broke into the Hudson's Bay Co. store, lifted its safe and $4,500, escaped in a stolen truck on the new road...