Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mix of disciplines gives a Shadow Faculty one advantage. Often all of its members get together, they do every week, they have some the most intensive and wildest on educational research that the school has ever seen. Last winter, fact, the debating got so intensive at the Faculty seriously discussed in the idea of disbanding and forgetting the whole thing...
...Caesar's Wife." The Inspector General's office itself has never spent more than $800,000 a year, though it is authorized expenses up to $2,000,000. One official explains that Mansfield's men, a mix of ex-FBI agents, Foreign Service officers, accountants, lawyers and computer experts, are "deeply imbued with the Caesar's wife idea. We couldn't be auditing and checking on others and not be extremely careful ourselves." The I.G.'s gumshoes log upwards of 1,000,000 miles a year by everything from DC-8 to dugout canoe...
...liveliest addition to Century City, Alcoa's huge, 180-acre project on the edge of Beverly Hills and 14 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The land-which, as 20th Century-Fox's back lot, used to bristle with cowboys and Indians, and before that was Tom Mix's ranch-cost $43 million. So far, Alcoa has spent an additional $160 million for the hotel, two 13-story office buildings, a big shopping center, and a pair of I. M. Pei-designed apartment towers, billed as "Your prestige address in America's modern Acropolis...
...that people went to motels outside of town because city hotels were "obsolete and rundown." While other motel chains bent over backwards to be everything from convention halls to resorts, Downtowner Corp. zeroed in on the all-but-forgotten traveling salesman for its bread-and-butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year (v. 64% for hotels) Downtowner Corp. rang up sales...
...hard-boiled area of steel mills and oil refineries with an abrasive ethnic mix, northern Lake County has not only been invaded by thrill seekers from shuttered Chicago; the crime syndicate, known locally as "the Outfit," has also found a cozy haven there. So cozy, in fact, says a local minister, that today Gary, with a population of only 178,000, has "every problem, vice and crime known...