Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ventures. At the height of his power, Giancana lived relatively modestly in Oak Park with his three daughters-his wife died in 1954-but vacationed on a lavish scale: Miami Beach and Europe in the winter, Paradise Valley near Las Vegas in the summer. While visiting Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1960, the don noticed Singer Phyllis McGuire standing at a blackjack table, seemingly bewildered by the game. He gallantly offered some expert advice and began a long romance with the singer...
...into the raffish, jostling metropolis of Seoul, South Korea. Throngs of Korean, American, European and Japanese businessmen pile into cabarets and assorted pleasure domes. Then, just before midnight, the pleasure seekers rush home to beat the midnight curfew, and the lights start winking out. A few miles away, villagers desert quiet country lanes for tile-or thatch-roofed cottages. And a few miles beyond that, perhaps an hour's drive from the teeming capital and its 6.5 million people, U.S. and South Korean soldiers anxiously scan the dark, austere terrain of the Demilitarized Zone. All along the 150-mile...
...canal. They took out from the limited-forces zone half the 7,000 men and 30 tanks allowed under the disengagement agreement, and withdrew artillery and missiles from canal range. To dramatize the move, Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week took foreign newsmen on a tour of the desert, where they observed the withdrawal of one sandchurning platoon of ten tanks...
Robin Starling was an important part of my education. I learned from him something about success in this society. I learned that what it really amounts to is acceptance, to not having people desert...
...town as a model full of lessons for similar developments, even those far from the Pilbara region. Howroyd's next projects may be in the very places where he found his original inspiration. Government agencies in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran, seeking better ways to plan their new desert cities, want the Australian architect to re-establish in their lands the concept of a protective town with narrow streets, people in constant contact and no cars...