Word: locust
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...Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs and a kiosk for sandwiches and soft drinks. Mirrors on the side walls will add a feeling of depth, and a sheet of water cascading over the entire length of the back wall will help drown out some of the city noises. "An immensely creative and stunning...
Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
...Locust. When Jones & Laughlin made its intentions public last April, a stampede of speculators began. Property values soared: the steel company had already doubled the going rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5,000 an acre. A vacant lot 80 ft. by 150 ft. drew an offer of $10,000. Two speculators tried to buy up stock in Hennepin's sole bank, threatened to put up another one next door when their offer was refused. Half a dozen groups rushed in and offered...
...brought their fairest ladies to the $150-a-seat benefit premiere of The Movie Version (see CINEMA). The traffic jam packed 14 blocks of Broadway so solidly that Star Audrey Hepburn had to desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed, Jennifer Jones fluttered a huge black boa, but Pepsi-Cola's sociable Joan Crawford...
Next year's vice-president will be Deming Pratt '65, of Wolbach Hall and Locust Valley...