Word: blanca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...
White, Semillon variety: Cresta Blanca (Premier), nonvintage...
...Snow Summit will have more than 20,000 people schussing and slaloming next weekend. Some citizens of Phoenix, Albuquerque, and points in between will strap skis on top of their station wagons, in apparent defiance of the dry, hot desert air, and head for Ski Cloud Croft or Sierra Blanca in the Sacramento mountains north of Alamogordo...
...Johnson, Arlene Dahl, and Maria Montez (a prize exhibit because she was warned in 1951 that the first week of September, an adverse time in her chart, would bring her danger from water, and drowned in her bathtub on Sept. 7). Righter's rival is veteran Stargazer Blanca Holmes, who boasts her own long list of big names, including the late Marilyn Monroe, Paula and Susan Strasberg and Clifford Odets...
...right, and a solid background: a bachelor of arts degree from Yale ('39), a law degree from Harvard ('42), four years of naval service in which he was a junior officer at invasions in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Normandy, a successful Cincinnati law practice. His family (Wife Blanca, Sons Robert A. Taft II, now 20, Jonathan, 7, and Daughters Sarah, 18, Deborah, 15) was a political asset too. But he felt he needed grass-roots political experience...