Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidents entertained each other at local night clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant fireworks, high-diving exhibitions, exotic Aztec dances, a high-style water-skiing show...
...spent swimming in the surf with his 13-year-old granddaughter. Spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky of Amalgamated Clothing Workers strolled poolward in a natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared in beach regalia featuring sun hat and cigar. But taking his cue from Reuther, Meany, growling, fled from the beach when photographers swarmed around...
...handsome, white-columned Warren County High School overlooking Front Royal, Va. opened its doors last week in compliance with a U.S. district court order. But just 23 Negro pupils-and not one of the 1,044 white students locked out by massive resistance last September -went in to register. The whites chose to boycott rather than integrate. The 780 white pupils still in town kept right on attending private, segregated classes in the Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches, a museum and a former youth center. Cracked Front Royal's Town Manager G. Douglas Hamner: "This is what you call...
Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...
...Caribbean's U.S. and British islands, which are both politically and isothermally hospitable, the winter tourist season was at its peak last week, and the peak had never been so high. "Don't even mention Caribbean to me," complained the New York manager of Happiness Tours. "Montego Bay, San Juan, Kingston. St. Thomas-all hopelessly jammed through April...