Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lock Step. The city they like to show visitors looks something like the better residential sections of Palm Beach, Fla. The ten-minute drive from the airport takes the visitor past block after block of modern houses that range from $50,000 on up to $200,000. This one belongs to Trujillo's son, that one to his daughter. Brother Hector, the nominal...
...concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery carabinieri at the portals...
...installments since the royal wedding last month, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko stole away to an imperial villa near the seaside resort of Hayama, some 50 miles south of Tokyo. In seclusion most of the time, they occasionally emerged, sportily attired, for strolls along the beach, seemed rapt in tranquil domesticity...
Councillor Edward A. Crane did not attend the meeting, as he reportedly has chicken pox. Councillor Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler also absented herself. City Clerk Frederick H. Burke is in Miami Beach. Ex-Councillor Hyman Pill arrived shortly after the meeting closed...
Shirley reached Albert and seized his hand, "but when I pulled, I could see that his arm was just hanging by a thread." She slipped her arm around him and began to swim for the beach. When she was near enough, a fisherman threw her a line. After they were on the sand, Shirley, a Roman Catholic, scooped up some sea water and let it run over the head of her friend (who had never been baptized and belonged to no specific faith). "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,"* said Shirley...