Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Lover Boy is making the La Ronde Room pay off. One of the warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which...
...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. One of the hunters: Audie Murphy, the U.S. Army's most decorated soldier in World War II, and a Texan man of action. When Murphy's hunting...
Where is the motherland of civilization? Prehistorians generally locate it in Mesopotamia, but Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, thinks that the Anatolian Plateau farther north in Turkey may have been civilized first. One of his field parties has excavated a Bronze Age site near Burdur that looked at first like a small village of a dozen small houses. Deeper down, the diggers found mud and stone fortifications 10 to 15 ft. thick, and a wooden upper story that was apparently destroyed by fire about 4,500 B.C. Under the ruins were human skeletons...
...Indian government also controls all news distribution facilities, and by informing the U.S.'s Associated Press that its license will not be renewed when it expires late this month, India moved toward granting a near monopoly on the supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...
...news agencies is to protect its only remaining domestic news agency, Press Trust of India, from ruinous competition. It is an ironic fact that by trying to help Press Trust of India (which depends heavily for revenue on the government-owned All India Radio), India is also giving a near monopoly of foreign news service to the agency that supplies Press Trust: Britain's Reuters Ltd., long a symbol to Indians of British imperialism. It is even more ironic that India, which won its national freedom so dearly, has created a press which is one of the most drably...