Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kingdom of Swaziland's picturesque Ezulwini Valley. It proved so successful that Holiday Inns last year followed up with another hotel and casino in Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. Now the chain has opened a third casino at Gaborone, the dust-bowl capital of Botswana, which is located only 200 miles from Johannesburg...
That tireless sports fan, Richard Milhous Nixon, has been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...
...Gazpacho, a cold, Spanish tomato soup, for $.80 a bowl with side bowls of diced cucumbers and peppers is unfailingly cool, garlicy and thick. Of the hors d'oeuvres, the angulas ($2.00), baby eels broiled in olive oil and garlic, are my favorite. You should hold your yellow linen napkin over the little casserole when it first is put before you, as the eels have just escaped the broiler and they sometimes explode with the heat. (Better that they explode under your napkin than in your face, or worse still, your stomach). Once cooled they are a startling and tender...
...floodwaters were most savage in Wilkes-Barre because the town lies at the bottom of a bowl-like depression surrounded by high ridges. The main street of the city is normally about level with the river and only enormous grass-covered 20-foot dikes separate the Susquehanna from the business district. Driving down "Five-Mile Hill" on the main road into Wilkes-Barre one can easily see how a rescue worker from Scranton could say, "It's just a hole...
...that caught the eye. What magic diet had brought her 5 ft. 7½ in. down to 98 Ibs.? "It just happened," she told Columnist Eugenia Sheppard. "In the mornings I just drank a cup of coffee. I was working all day in my studio, so I ate a bowl of Granola, one of those health cereals, with some milk. At night I had steak, vegetables and a diet pudding...