Word: bel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange for his freedom, Bel grade sources say, Djilas promised "not to make trouble" for Tito. He will keep away from Western correspondents "as much as possible" and perhaps even go into hiding for a while. But will he give up his political writing? "His life is politics," a Djilas friend once commented. "You might as well ask him to stop breathing...
Irondequoit, an affluent suburb of Rochester, N.Y., has taken 50 first-and second-graders from the city's Negro areas. In Los Angeles, 310 Negroes from first grade to high school have been transplanted daily into such upper-class neighborhoods as Bel Air. Cincinnati is bussing 100 city Negroes out of their neighborhoods, including some into its suburban perimeter...
...sweep and elegance of residential show places are breathtaking-and so are the prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely...
Hydrophobia He-Man. The producers chose the Connecticut location, says Director Frank Perry (David and Lisa), chiefly because it matches Cheever's Eastern setting. Hollywood pools are not right anyway. Burt Lancaster, for example, has a little $30,000 layout in Bel Air, with a heating system, a waterfall and a tributary running into the living room. It was too splashy for Cheever country, so Lancaster & Co. had to go East. To add insult to imposition, Hollywood He-Man Lancaster was required to take three months of swimming lessons first to cure his mild hydrophobia...
...opposite page) opened this month in the citadel city of Cuenca. Three years of restoration went into the 20-room museum housed in 15th century buildings which crane over a gorge that drops some 600 feet. The prime mover is a wealthy Philippine-born painter named Fernando Zóbel, 42, who has taken from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from...