Word: miles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't TIME publish articles about our great Galveston wharves, the lifeline of our city, or about the tourist attraction, which is a beautiful, 32-mile public beach with hotels, motels and recreational facilities? Galveston is also the favorite convention spot for many nationwide organizations...
...Bill. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while holding their annual convention at the Galt Ocean Mile Hotel, the 200 members of the Florida Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous consumed 449 gallons of coffee in three days, polished off another 35 gallons at a single banquet...
...commercial heart of the British Empire, the physical City of London is a square mile of tangled alleyways originally built for handcarts and daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still...
...Ruffo di Calabria at the Vatican had set off an anticlerical uproar in Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police and a battalion of gendarmes were needed to hold back the curious crowds. Flowers showered down on the smiling King, who won cheers by nimbly catching bouquets in midair. Cried a plump Brussels housewife to her neighbor...
Divorced by fourth wife Elaine last month in California, sawed-off (5 ft. 3 in.) Cinemugger Mickey (The Last Mile) Rooney, 38, whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper...