Word: ella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magic Pictures. For four long days, Hurricane Ella kept the planes on the ground. Finally, on Sunday, Oct. 14, Navy fighter pilots collected the clinching evidence. Flying as low as 200 ft., they made a series of passes over Cuba with their cameras whirring furiously. They returned with thousands of pictures-and the photographs showed that Cuba, almost overnight, had been transformed into a bristling missile base...
...ELLA D. ARMES...
...define as Forddriving youngsters who have outgrown rock 'n' roll. Last week's show had Trumpeter Shorty Rogers at a Nike-Zeus site, Pianist Peter Nero playing beneath a radar scanner, the New Christy Minstrels on the Pacific beach near Los Angeles; also another show starred Ella Fitzgerald. Stan Kenton realized what must have been a lifelong ambition by directing a field of playerless instruments dangling from wires, while the real orchestra sat off in the wings and played a pretentious Kenton work called Existentia in Brass that sounded like Malaguena...
...entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial, philanthropic leaders and members of the press." The grand opening last week was graced by Bobby Darin and George Kirby-with such headliners as Jack Leonard, Vic Damone, Keely Smith, the Kingston Trio, Joe E. Lewis and Ella Fitzgerald booked for future stands. Rooms run from $12 to $45 a night, and all guests are automatically insured for $5,000 while registered and for eight hours after checkout. "It will be great for the three-hour layover," said one seasoned traveler...
...home or on location in cities or deserts, she constantly plays American popular music on tape recorders and phonographs. Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee. She securely describes herself as a beautiful woman, but she fears that people think she is dumb as well. She is forever polishing her English, syllabically going over new words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread...