Word: lakefront
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebullient and optimistic a man as Hubert Humphrey might have resigned himself to spending the rest of his political days in the Senate, even enjoying some leisurely living with his wife Muriel, their four children and two grandchildren, and perhaps more regular returns to the family's lakefront home in Waverly. Minn. To most men. this would hardly be an unpleasant prospect, and Humphrey himself admits that after hectic weeks in the capital, he likes nothing better than to visit Waverly to "put on a pair of blue jeans, get out in a boat-and just smell...
...Noise? The Chicago museum, on the lakefront near the University of Chicago, was born to keep up with technology: the original building was part of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. For a while afterward it was the home of the Field Museum of Natural History. Reconstruction began in 1926, after Merchant Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald returned from a visit to Munich's famed Deutsches Museum, which pioneered in developing industrial exhibits the visitor could operate. He and his eight-year-old son William, were fascinated. Rosenwald gave the equivalent of $8,000,000 in Sears, Roebuck stock...
...city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified one aspiring city councilman as "an admitted tax cheat," another as "Front man for a slum landlord." Monuments to the Press's love for the city dot the landscape: a handsome lakefront development, an expanded public hall, new low-cost apartment houses built over slums, a new community college. But Seltzer and the Press are too busy to pause and admire their handiwork. The paper throws parties for the bassinet set and Golden Wedding couples. It sends Nationalities Editor Theodore Andrica abroad...
...very desirable possibility" for diversification, says the I.C.'s highly rated President Wayne A. Johnston, 65, would be the construction of offices or apartments on the scenic lakefront lands that the I.C. owns near Chicago's Loop. "We might also acquire some manufacturing firm that would produce a lot of traffic for the railroad," says Johnston. "Almost any promising venture will be considered, whether it be a jewelry store or a hamburger stand." Illinois Central Industries would be forbidden to acquire directly competing transportation companies, but beyond that it would be a fairly free agent...
Geneva's staid old lakefront hotels looked like Chicago during a political convention last week. In crowded bars and smoke-filled rooms, politicians hammered out compromises, lined up voting blocs, and kept ears to the ground for reaction from the folks back home. The occasion: the 19th semiannual meeting of the 39 nations that are parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which has as its aim worldwide liberalization of trade...