Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once a Garden of Allah. But it blossomed in lush profusion from the day in 1927 when Nazimova turned her once private domain into a super hostelry; 23 guest villas were added to the great stucco manor house-and an h was added to the mistress' first name, recalling the movie Garden of Allah. Alla objected to the spelling, but her modest protests were drowned in the gin-laced hubbub...
Population: 100,000. The Negev, at the strategic crossroads of three continents, has obvious value to Israel and the West. Yet few parts of the world qualify better for the name "badlands," the desert so scarred by erosion and so parched by drought (less than 2 in. of rainfall in some areas) that many engineers believe only water pipelines from the north can make it habitable-and then on a minor scale. Glueck disagrees. He argues that the Negev once supported a fairly dense population, possibly 100,000 or more people, and that now it can be made to support...
Like Fellow Builders William (Levittown) Levitt and William (Hotel Zeckendorf) Zeckendorf, Norman Winston preserves his name in brick and mortar. Four U.S. communities are named Winston Park and four Winston schools have risen on land donated by Winston. These, and a philanthropic foundation, are his monuments; he has no children. Why does he not retire? Says Winston: "It's too late to retire...
...Bremen, fifth in a xoi-year line to bear the name, is Germany's biggest liner and one of the world's most luxurious (airconditioning, nonbruising doorknobs, clothes dryers for wash-and-wear suits). Her owner, North German Lloyd, returning to transatlantic luxury service after 20 years' absence, is a monument to the frugality and enterprise that brought back Germany's decimated merchant marine to its present strength of 2,400 ships...
...Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...