Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club on shimmering Keehi Lagoon, left their "classified" folders on the tables while they enjoyed a quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
Traps & Troubles. There are a few flypaper palaces that have the bads and should be noted for it. The Hall of Education is full of plastic flower exhibits and other flotsam that has nought to do with education. The Better Living and Transportation & Travel pavilions are both traps. Their Kafkan walls are lined with booths from which predator salesmen claw for the jugular. The pavilion of American Interiors is only a big furniture showroom that charges 50? admission. The Underground House ($1) is the pavilion of American Interiors six feet under. Hollywood ($1.25) is a stockade full of tacky...
...noon and end at dawn after a night of composition at the piano. He keeps up his composing regimen even on tour, and many recent additions to his enormous output are directly inspired by his travels. The bridge between his early Bird of Paradise and his recent Little African Flower spans more than 1,000 compositions, among them such triumphs as Mood Indigo, Solitude and Black, Brown and Beige-and though his form has expanded radically, his substance has never drifted far from jazz. "Le jazz, c'est moi," the Duke seems to say, and students of his music...
Even that is not completely safe, because laser beams can pick up a conversation 100 yds. away. With miniature, transistorized equipment, even trees and flower beds have on occasion been bugged, along with practically everything else-bedsprings, toilet bowls, belt buckles. Americans believe that the microphones in their living quarters are turned on only when they receive important visitors, but they cannot be sure. Says one diplomat: "A man and his wife can't even have an argument unless they are willing to let the Russians...
...burst into fame in the 1954 musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan...