Word: denned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants, usually takes off cross-country with his cronies to Memphis and his 18-room, $1,000,000 hideaway, Graceland. "I withdraw not from my fans but from myself," he drawls. "After work, I just give out." He gives out into a place with jukebox at poolside, a den for his 31 gold (million-seller) single records. There is a private suite for him and another for his grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Presley, 74. He doesn't like to think about Elvis the idol when he's not working. When ABC's Shindig celebrates his tenth anniversary this...
...craggy coast of Brittany juts into the Atlantic like the head of a hungry snapping turtle. Ragged with reefs and studded with wind-worn, prehistoric monuments, it is one of France's poorest but most picturesque regions. Even the names are striking: Brest and Quimper, Kernascléden and Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale...
Smugglers' Den. The weapons are economic blockade and psychological pressure. At issue is Spain's rankling sense of being the only European nation with a foreign colony on its soil. This anachronism must end, says Madrid, and Gibraltar must be returned to Spain, to which it belonged in 1704, when a sudden British-Dutch attack captured the fortress in three days...
Spain took its problem to the U.N. Special Committee on Colonialism, and in its report last October the committee suggested that Britain and Spain engage in private talks about Gibraltar. Within 24 hours Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the blockade begun, calling Gibraltar a den of smugglers. On that point Franco was quite right. As a free port, Gibraltar has long been a haven for such contraband as whisky, cigarettes and radios, which are then often smuggled into Spain...
...Premier six years ago. One of the clan, General Kouprasith Abhay, is military governor of Vientiane, and he has recently been quarreling with a Phoumi partisan, General Siho Lamphouthacoul, over who should control such imports as liquor and medicine, as well as the lucrative fees from opium and gambling dens. As a result, licensing patrols of Kouprasith's soldiers and Siho's police have been arresting each other, while gamblers and opium-den keepers loudly complained at having to buy two licenses to operate in peace...