Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the roads near Middleburg, Va., a convoy of limousines daily moved into a lavish colonial estate called Huntlands, only three miles from President Kennedy's winter weekend spot, Glen Ora.* Shielded from prying eyes by a high, cream-colored brick wall, diplomats from The Netherlands and Indonesia met with U.S. Mediator Ellsworth Bunker, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy and India, to try to negotiate their dispute over the control of Netherlands New Guinea. Last week, after 4½ weary months, the negotiators shook hands on a deal...
...Misanthrope," with a lavish set in baroque style by scene-designer Horace Armistead and seventeenth-century costumes by Lewis Smith, features Petee Haskell as the disillusioned Alceste. Lucy Stone plays the beautiful and heartless Celimene with Joanne Hamlin as Arsinoe and Lynn Millgrim as Eliante. Paul Barstow performs as the misanthrope's friend, Philinte, and Samuel Abbot as the sonnet-writing Oronte. David Cole and Harry Smith are cast as the court fops, Clitandre and Acaste...
...Help. The more lavish retirement centers will probably never be within the reach of most people who retire. But in recent years, the U.S. has slowly gotten around to helping with the housing of what the politicians like to call "our senior citizens." In 1956 Congress passed a law making public housing funds available to housing projects for the elderly. Subsequent laws and amendments authorized direct loans for private, nonprofit housing of old people-sponsored by church groups, labor unions, individuals, etc.-at extremely liberal rates (interest as low as 3⅛% on mortgages running as long as 50 years...
HAROLDS CLUB OR BUST! read signs plastered all over the U.S. West, luring millions of Americans to the biggest gambling joint in Reno. So profitable was the lavish emporium of slot machines, roulette, and blackjack tables that the original outlay of $600 by its owners, a thrifty family of Vermonters named Smith, paid off $16,675,000 when they sold last week to a Manhattan syndicate. Still spinning the club's wheel of chance as manager: Harold S. Smith, son of the founder and author of an autobiography aptly titled I Want to Quit Winners...
...Western standards, Oxy is a venerable institution of learning. It was founded 75 years ago by Los Angeles' Presbyterian ministers, who gave it a lavish land-grant endowment, and grandly called it "Occidental University." After land values collapsed and enrollment plunged to twelve, Oxy became a "college." It survived a disastrous fire, and by 1905, the year when a poetic 18-year-old named Robinson Jeffers graduated, Oxy was solvent enough to dream of becoming "the Princeton of the West...