Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself to blame for Nixon's decision to visit Poland. Nixon had asked for permission to fly across Siberia and visit the Pacific port of Vladivostok, returning to the U.S. by way of Alaska, but the Kremlin vetoed that plan. After that, Nixon decided to accept a longstanding offer from the government of Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka to visit Poland...
...agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until 1960 and $1,000,000 a year after that for eleven years. Libya has now demanded ten times as much-a whopping $40 million a year-in rent for Wheelus, and more perks besides. The U.S. has countered with an offer...
...succession. Brain, youngest superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines as a World War II Japanese-language officer. Before saying yes to Baltimore, he passed up an offer to head Pittsburgh's public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with a State Department-sponsored educational leaders' seminar. Says George Brain: "European and American education seem to be moving closer together in purpose and objectives. Europe is broadening the opportunity for education...
Across the U.S., Winston has built housing valued at more than $250 million. He has $112 million worth abuilding, including groups of 3,500 apartments in Bayside. L.I., 1,500 apartments in Palatine, Ill. His formula for success is to build houses fast and in quantity, offer people something they could not duplicate for the price ($8,490 to $29.000), and, most of all. "build up to their dreams" by offering luxuries and interiors usually found in costlier houses...
...Manhattan sophisticates (mostly from west of the Hudson), The Four Seasons up to now has been just another baroque concerto by Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi, or a topflight restaurant patronized by Americans in Munich, Germany. This week Manhattanites and visitors to Manhattan got the offer of an even more baroque outlet. From now on, if money, showmanship, and just plain spectacle count for anything. The Four Seasons will be synonymous with the world's costliest restaurant ($4.5 million to build), which swung open its Park Avenue doors this week on the ground floor of the bronzed Seagram Building...