Word: grounds
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...been a reform in tax collection, wiser government spending and a mild austerity program that has allowed him to build a modest foreign currency reserve. Realizing the value of the tourist dollar, he has promoted a series of resort hotels from Tangier to Marrakesh, turned Morocco into the haunting ground of such jet-set types as Truman Capote and Princess Lee Radziwill. Last year 700,000 tourists-nearly twice as many as in 1965-converged on Morocco...
...members of the Harvard football squad, more than 2,400 singles turned up for opening night. Whether in Boston's Back Bay, Chicago's Near North Side or San Francisco's Montgomery Street, the dating bars are providing career girls with a sorely needed new meeting ground. "No one thinks you are a pickup," insists Bonnie Cancienne, 23, a San Francisco securities analyst who graduated from Berkeley last year. "The people I would like to meet would be horrified to think of me that...
...weeks ago several major suppliers increased the price they charge dealers by six-tenths of 1? per gal., or about 2.5%. Except on the West Coast, which has long been a price-war battle ground, the increase has become general over most of the nation - meaning that motorists will be paying 1? per gal. more for their...
...outdoorsman's hunting ground it may be, but L. L. Bean, Inc. is also an efficiency expert's nightmare. It stashes incoming mail in shirt boxes. Once it lost $125,000 in business when a list of 40,000 would-be customers was mistakenly destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that...
...Match Case and Whistle by noting that "the Whistle is loud enough to be heard a long distance." Bean's Deer Toter, a stretcher ingeniously rigged to a bicycle wheel, was described as a contrivance on which "your deer looks so much better than when dragged over the ground." The catalogue also promoted Bean's two highly successful books. One of them, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, a slender, lore-packed manual, sold 150,000 copies, contains duplicate chapters so woodsbound readers can clip parts out, still leave the tome intact. The other, a rambling, disjointed autobiography, is entitled...