Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began to match terror with terror. Ben Khedda escaped a Massu dragnet by ducking down a manhole and dodging his way through the city...
Cold weather hangout for the Florida-vacationing Kennedy clan is Joe Kennedy's 16-room winter home on Millionaires' Row in Palm Beach. Modest by local Taj Mahal standards, the house has a simple, lived-in look. The living room furniture is slipcovered in durable green and white flowered chintz and is arranged, says one reporter, so that "there are aisles for the children to run through." As in all the Kennedy homes, the center of activities is outdoors, by the tennis court and swimming pool. From poolside, Joe Kennedy telephones around the U.S. to his children...
...Young Orestes, in The Return, is not the man his Sophoclean namesake was. Unlike Clytemnestra. his mother has not killed her husband; she has merely taken up with a fake faith healer while her soldier-husband is missing in war. Her house has become a near-brothel and a hangout for all sorts of scurvy types. To Eugenia, the latter-day Electra, hating her mother's vulgarity and unfaithfulness, life is agony. Their violent quarrels have become a way of life, to be ended, Eugenia believes, only when Brother Orestes comes back from the university to set things right...
...from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime, when his glazed eyes tell...
Maybe Some Day. Weeks of confinement in his suburban Scarsdale, N.Y. home finally drove Winchell back to the duplex at Manhattan's St. Moritz Hotel that has long been his city hangout. But except for a few evenings at the theater, he has generally avoided the haunts where he once gathered his columnar tidbits...