Word: clapboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp each morning in a white clapboard house in Milan, Mich., a slim, bald man bounces out of bed, pads into the bathroom, takes up an electric razor in each hand and mows off the night's growth of beard. To Generalist John Sherrod DeTar (rhymes with guitar), 54, new president of the A.A.G.P., this ambidextrous start of the day is just commonsense efficiency. "I have a lot of things to do and I want to save time to do them...
When historians eventually fix the place and time of the Republic of Panama's change from a Bolivarian nation* to a Central American nation, they may well decide on an offhand conference held one day last week at a grey clapboard customs house on the border between Costa Rica and Panama. The conferees: Panama's President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias, in mustard-colored slacks and a brown sports jacket, and Costa Rica's José ("Pepe") Figueres, in shirtsleeves and loosened...
Gone are the old clapboard tourist cabins with their cold-water faucets and rickety bedsteads. Today's motelman thinks little of spending $1,000,000 for his neon-lighted palace, where private baths and comfortable beds are as standard as doorknobs. Though the average occupancy rate is still about 70% (about the same for hotels), such a prime vacation place as Las Vegas, Nev. has between 250 to 300 competing motels. Southern California alone has 650; Florida has 4,500, and its motel operators thought the state had all that it could stand 18 months ago. But new motels...
...drives out of the rolling hills of the Holyoke Range past the white clapboard houses of the upper Connectient Valley into the sleepy little town of Amherst, Massachusetts, one is immediately impressed that here is a New England Village still in the original. Shade trees dot its broad, green common stretching away to the right and the left. Clustered among the trees on a knoll sit a group of New England type brick buildings dominated by a white-spired chapel...
...modest grey clapboard house in Princeton, N.J., Physicist Albert Einstein was deluged with letters, wires and cables from all over the world, soberly deduced that the hubbub was stirred up by the passing of his 75th birthday...