Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free plane ticket. There are seven European hotels in which Fielding allows himself to stay without paying because the operator is a close friend and would otherwise be offended. He makes up for that by overtipping: during a two-day sojourn at Madrid's Palace Hotel, managed by Alfonso Font, he gave away $130 in gratuities...
From the proud parents at the baptismal font to the sorrowing mourners at a young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux...
...they had counted on. Jewels are more durable than porcelain, but they're easily heisted; Sonny and Marylou Whitney got robbed of $780,000 worth at Saratoga a year ago, and their insurance premiums must be ferocious. Coins can be better guarded, but someone recently stole Willis du Font's collection only the other day he got back a single coin worth $100,000. His cousin, Alexis I. du Pont, may be better off with his collection of antique airplanes, though they take up so much room that the poor fellow has had to build himself a complete airport...
...took 20 years and $75 million to develop (compared with $27 million for nylon). Thus it was no wonder that the security at Du Font's Chattanooga, Tenn., pilot plant took on Pentagon proportions. To the trade, it was known simply as "Fiber Y." Even at the press preview, Du Pont took no chances of leaking the process before it hits the market at year's end. Six models wearing Qiana garments were escorted by armed guards to prevent any overanxious competitor from the common practice of snipping a sample swatch...
...Stevens' Kaycel, a tough blend of 93% cellulose and 7% nylon which is fire resistant unless washed. So great has been the demand that the company has had to put all Kaycel customers on rations; since there is not enough to go around, manufacturers are turning to Du Font's Ree-may, a "spunbonded" polyester, and are also using Kendall's Webril, a nonwoven rayon. Kaycel marketing experts calculate current expenditures for disposable goods made from Kaycel and similar materials at $50 million per year, think the figure could reach $300 million within five years...