Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, the waves of tourism that wash its many beaches have reached almost tidal proportions. Visitors have increased by 75% in the past six years, and developers have rushed to capitalize on the bonanza. On four of Hawaii's major islands, some 64 resorts and hotels are now in various stages of building or planning. This week one of the biggest names in the resort business in another ocean makes his Pacific bow: Laurance Rockefeller will open his $15 million-plus Mauna Kea Beach Hotel complex on the "big island" of Hawaii...
...plans some new homes, or at least campsites, on the range. Four Texas rangers from Laredo (NBC) will be ranging Texas anew. The Legend of Jesse James has finally cracked TV and will get the cleaned-up Robin Hood treatment from ABC. ABC also has a variant of Bonanza called The Big Valley; Barbara Stanwyck plays Lorne Greene, dispensing wise advice and stuff to her three sons and a daughter, plus her dead husband's bastard boy for extra spice. Robert Horton, late of Wagon Train, has now forgotten his name and goes searching around the West...
...bank officer, Executive Vice President Longstreet Hinton, interpreted Lament's message as a confirmation of rumors, which had been circulating for days on Wall Street, that Texas Gulf had struck an ore bonanza near Timmins, Ont. Between 10:45 and 10:59, Morgan Guaranty bought 8,000 shares of Texas Gulf for its accounts, including 3,000 shares for the Nassau County (N.Y.) Hospital. Morgan Guaranty paid between 321 and 34 for stock that rose to a high of 37 that day (last week it closed...
...trouble there is that so many people are producing so much sugar that the price has tumbled from 12? a lb. to 2? a lb. in 19 months. Altogether, in sales and barter with the free world, Castro can raise only about $145 million this year-hardly a bonanza, considering that Cuba got about $275 million for a smaller crop last year...
...screen is any reflection of the household it sits in, marriage is a fading institution. Bonanza's Ben Cartwright is a confirmed old widower and likely to remain so. The Fugitive's Richard Kimble is a wrongly convicted wife-murderer. Combat's Sergeant Chip Saunders is a single sort, and ail-American rubes like Marine Private Gomer Pyle and Small-Town Sheriff Andy Taylor ain't hitched either. Lucy is now a widow, and Constance MacKenzie's single status is the talk of Peyton Place, what with her having a teen-age daughter...