Word: bel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is simple. When an Irish boy is arrested in Belfast for killing a policeman, Monsewer's IRA colleagues kidnap a 19-year-old English soldier and bring him to the house as a hostage for the life of "the Bel-fast martyr." The soldier falls in love with a maid and makes friends with the other occupants, but when he begs them to help him escape, they refuse. There is a surprise ending, which we won't spoil...
...alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif...
...face things that aren't nice." An eternal optimist, Hilton considers everything about himself and his way of life indestructible and unchanging-unless he changes it. Resting up one fine afternoon recently before a globe-girdling trip, he sat on the terrace of his enchanted house in Bel Air, a fistful of peanuts in his hand. Loudly he whistled again and again for a half-domesticated bluejay named Chairman of the Board. The bird flew away many months ago, but Conrad Hilton still refuses to give up hope that one day it will return...
Hilton has all the trappings of the very rich, but they hang indifferently about him. He has four cars, a private plane, a pro football team (San Diego Chargers) and a 61-room mansion in Bel Air, Calif., which, with Hearstian grandeur, he has named Casa Encantada. He lives there alone and, with 19 servants at his call, does nothing for himself; he will not even buy his own clothes. While his hotels like to proclaim their appeal to gourmets, Hilton is indifferent to fancy food, preferring to dine on corned beef hash, tuna-fish casserole and tea served...
...blackboard was chalked: "Vive Miss France!" But as the French press put it, there were "perturbations" at the Bel-Air Lycée for Girls in Angouleme, near Limoges, and the perturbation was all because Math Teacher Muguette Fabris, 22, had gone to Bordeaux to practice a little solid (89-50-90*) geometry. The judges took one look at Muguette in a swimsuit and-zut! She was Miss France. Back at the Lycée, the principal had no head for figures, made Muguette promise to forgo makeup at school and to come to work by bus instead...