Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Marcos Perez Jimenez, 44, the plump, well-manicured ex-dictator of Venezuela, got a rude order last week from the U.S. Immigration Service: get out of the country by April 15. Perez Jimenez has been living in a $300,000 mansion in Florida on a temporary visa and a diplomatic passport given him, in a show of chivalry, by the revolutionary junta that bounced him from office 15 months...
Poor Man's Plato. The new assignment has been added to a schedule already strained. Six days a week Adler, 56, disappears into a 55-year-old Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco, headquarters for the Institute of Philosophical Research. Behind this imposing title and façade, Adler and six fellow brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...
...month in bed following her fall from a white Arabian stallion named Gui Pago (TIME. Feb. 9). Aiding her convalescence were her French secretary, Italian hairdresser and Husband Mel Ferrer. At company expense she installed her retinue in a florid villa, refurbished to match the Ferrers' Beverly Hills mansion. But trouble was far from over. Returning from a trip to Nicaragua, three of the film's technicians were killed when their plane crashed near Managua. This tragedy was followed by a farce, when Director Huston led a duck-shooting party to a mountain lake near Durango...
...warriors is intimately known to dour Cinemactor James Mason, who for years has been famed offstage for a sort of stunned silence. It was not one of Mason's fifteen cats that got his tongue. Every day, when she rises from her noon bath in their Beverly Hills mansion, his wife, coruscant Pamela Mason, 42, begins talking with the literate sting of a Parisian presiding over her salon. An old friend, Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, says: "She talks like a woman who was born analyzed. She is happily malicious...