Word: corallis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staggering odds of 9,872 to 1, the stunned bookmakers realized they were on the hook for a possible $28 million. Gleeful gamblers were already calling the caper "Operation Sandpaper" because it rubbed the bookmakers the wrong way. Fifty of the biggest bookies in England-from Joe Coral and Ladbroke's to Jack Swift and William Hill-gathered that evening at London's Victoria Club. The bookies agreed to call the betting on that particular race null and void. All money wagered on the race would be refunded...
...Harry D. L. Kaye of Coral Gables was treating a 54-year-old engineer for a messy infection of the left ear that had not yielded to penicillin. Then the engineer remembered that on a hunting trip in Venezuela he had been bitten on the ear, and later had felt a wriggling sensation inside it. Surgeon Kaye set to work to clean out what seemed like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long. Two days later, he removed another maggot. The Department of Agriculture's Entomologist Richard P. Higgins identified...
...Mortimer, 20, pacesetting daughter of Best-Dressed Mrs. William S. Paley and Manhattan Socialite Stanley Mortimer, married Law Student Shirley Carter Burden Jr., 22, on Long Island, Women's Wear Daily styled it in advance as "the wedding of the year." Ba wore white organza by Mainbocher; Ma, coral plaid taffeta by Dior. But it was more than that, and the reception at the estate of CBS Chairman Paley proved a crossroads of several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth (the hairdresser), Columnist Joseph Alsop, Publisher John Hay Whitney, Hollywood's Mike Romanoff...
...Spain's Costa del Sol, which has become almost honky-tonk as a result of a vast influx of tourists and land speculators, even rural land now sells for as much as $60,000 an acre-a price that the same lot in Florida's Coral Gables could not command...
...Maldives sound like something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most...