Word: marrakech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France quivered under the implications of the case, looked falteringly at the great interests, domestic and international, which might be affected by a misdirected or careless inheritance of the colossal Walter empire. And what of Dominique and the slippery Dr. Lacour? Both were vacationing at Marrakech in Morocco, 422 miles from the site of the great Zellidja mines. Everybody was talking at sixty to the minute. Jean Lacaze blamed Paulo, cried: "He is the shame of our family." Paulo Guillaume snapped irritably: "The billions don't interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing...
Churchill got on well with children and with pets, which he treated like backward, and therefore privileged, humans. His poodle Rufus. his cat Mickey, and a black goat that took a fancy to him as he was painting in Marrakech. were his special pals. And he could not bring himself to carve a Christmas goose. "You'll have to carve it, Clemmie; this goose was a friend of mine," he said to Mrs. Churchill...
...they sometimes are when taken one or two phrases at a time, present confusion together. However, two poems by Stephen Sandy come to rescue readers from the rain of apples in Wright's poem. Both are very tightly written, exotic pieces: "Moulay Ismail and King Louis' Daughter," and "Near Marrakech." The second of these is particularly ingenious and vivid...
After two months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed...
...will open, with a casino. Already running in Havana is the $6,000,000. 252-room Capri. Puerto Rico will soon inaugurate the 359-room, ocean-front San Juan Intercontinental. In Jamaica the Arawak's record for size will stand only until next year, when the 200-room Marrakech will open on the north shore. Chief Minister Norman Manley foresees that tourism, now earning Jamaica around $25 million a year, will jump to 500,000 visitors and $100 million in revenue...