Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain, and so are the realities. Both parts of the New World may now be good neighbors, but the heirs of the Pilgrims have a hostile notion of all that the Spanish fathered in Latin America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel...
...descending horde, pointing to a record 1,750,000 visitors v. 1,500,000 last year, soothed the doubt nagging at every Miami Beach hotelkeeper: had the Beach overbuilt? The answer: not yet, despite the $120 million spent on new hotels in the past five years, bringing the total along the seven-mile strip of sandy beach to 380 hotels and more than 30,000 rooms...
...room Americana, which opened on Dec. 1. A reservation at the Americana at $68 a day for a Lanai (one bedroom, two baths, a living room, a galley kitchen) or $32 a day (meals extra, of course) for one of the ordinary picture-windowed bedrooms was the Miami Beach equivalent of an invitation to the royal enclosure at Ascot...
Next Year's Hotel. With another better-than-ever season ahead, hotelmen already have a new worry: Where can they get land for more hotels? Hotels now jam every inch of the commercially available beach front; the rest, about one mile of beach front, is zoned for private estates. To build the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, waivers had to be secured allowing private-land to be put to commercial use; for its site the Americana had to go six miles north of Lincoln Road-the Beach's main stem-to Bal Harbour, which is, strictly speaking, outside...
Last week the Miami Beach city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million...