Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor...
Newspaper comic strips were once considered something for the kiddies, but through the years they have reached more and more toward the adult. Li'I Abner is a backwoods peepshow, abounding in pork-fed bosoms and thighs. Steve Canyon is an illustrated primer on military chess and international intrigue...
Victory in Miami. For unassuming, unspectacular Jim Knight, it was an unaccustomed prominence. He has climbed the hard way, by merit, in a family empire where climbing was scarcely necessary. By disposition, he settled on the business side. "Jack isn't any bookkeeper," he said, "and I've...
¶ After nine weeks of record-setting races that established the sharply banked track as the fastest in the world-and killed two drivers-officials of the spanking-new 27-mile Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway concluded the track was too fast for the powerful Indianapolis-type cars, indefinitely canceled future...
"I wanted fame," Wright confessed in later years. "Instead, I became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of...