Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veils & Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public...
...group troup took the Experimenters and some of their Yugoslav hosts through Macedonia to Lake Chrid, a resort area on the Albanian border; then along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic to Dubrounik...
Letters now began to come into papers up and down the East coast from both Harvard and Princeton graduates, deploring the much-debated issue of the Lampoon and indeed, deploring the whole situation. The New York Worldeven ran an editorial on the matter entitled "Bad Manners at Harvard." The World declared that somebody should take the whole undergraduate body of the college out behind the barn and "teach them a few lessons...
...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...
Menzel, referring to reports of unidentified objects seen all over the West and by a Coast Guard cutter in the Atlantic, said that the new rash of sightings was "no great surprise." Menzel, who says that he "can see saucers almost any night," and has repeatedly chased them in planes, classed the most recent reports as probable mirages caused by atmospheric disturbances...