Word: convertible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Houses (notably Quincy and Leverett) have set up temporary barracks in some of their suites in order to take care of the overflow. The Administration, however, is not planning to force the Masters to convert any more rooms. This pressure should soon be alleviated by an increase in the number of students allowed to take private rooms outside the college Dean Watson declared yesterday...
...Hers Pools. But Natalie was no homebody ("Sure, I'm domestic. I can call room service"). And when it came to interior decorating, she was worse. In a costly attempt to convert the Wagners' colonial mansion into a Beverly Hills Parthenon, she capriciously fired three contractors. The result was a Pompeian extravaganza: the ornate staircases wobbled, the floor under Natalie's bathroom (with its sunken 6-ft.-square tub) sagged, the ceiling fell on the enormous canopied bed. Flaky plaster sifted down on Natalie's 20-ft. marble dressing table, sank into a 6-in.-deep...
...America's Greatest Poet." the publishers call him without equivocation; certainly he was the most American poet. From its publication in 1855, Leaves of Grass has been acknowledged by convert or critic as signaling something new and distinctively American. It has been an emancipation proclamation for later generations of U.S. writers as apparently diverse as Thomas Wolfe, Saul Bellow, Henry Miller, James Agee and Jack Kerouac-and for writers anywhere who have felt inhibited by form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing...
...carriage trade back to Majorca was launched by Monaco's Prince Rainier, a resort operator whose flair for free publicity is the despair of rivals from Cairo to the Catskills. On a visit to Majorca last year. Rainier was impressed by plans initiated by two U.S. promoters to convert a magnificently battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding, 1,000 acres of well-kept grounds...
...took over as director of labor relations the following year. "I just hate strikes," he says. "Collective bargaining is a device by which we can work out our problems without legislation, in a peaceful manner. It keeps us out of the trouble other nations have had." A Catholic convert who had to drop out of Detroit's Wayne State University for lack of money, thoughtful Lou Seaton is well able to lecture fellow Wayne dropout Walter Reuther about social justice-whenever the voluble Reuther lets him get a word...