Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespeare festivals are proliferating in colleges, in parks, in barns, in permanent installations that sometimes even look like Elizabethan theaters. A few have found it expedient to lard their offerings of the bard with other classics from Shaw to Gilbert and Sullivan. On the menu: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Ore.: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ro meo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V. Season ends Sept...
...Estenssoro's goal is to make the tin mines profitable again by modernizing equipment and de-featherbedding payrolls. If he succeeds, that will be an important victory for him and for Bolivia. Before Bolivia's 1952 revolution, led by Paz Estenssoro, the tin mines produced the ore equivalent of about 30,000 tons of tin a year, accounted for the greater part of the nation's foreign exchange. Within a few years after the triumphant revolution nationalized the mines, production and efficiency sank to the point where the mines ceased to be profitable. In recent years, they...
...Hilton is busy spotting the world with hotels wherever the U.S. tourist and businessman alight, girding the globe with new links in the longest hotel chain ever made. Already this year, Hilton has opened new hotels in Teheran, London, Athens, Rotterdam, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Portland, Ore. Under construction are two new Hiltons in Paris, one at Montreal airport, and others in Brussels, Honolulu, Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Rabat, Mayagüez, Tunis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Curaçao, Cyprus, Addis Ababa, Dublin, Manila, Caracas, Barbados...
...much as $150,000 on one. He tries valiantly to give a little speech in the native language, no matter how disastrously it turns out, loves to mingle with the celebrities and movie stars he has invited. There are other types about, too. The honored guests at the Portland, Ore., opening threw furniture into the swimming pool and made off with the portrait of Hilton that hangs in every Hilton lobby. At the New York opening, some wayward members of the press took their whisky by the bottle instead of the drink, someone painted a swastika on a Dong Kingman...
...working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections in his instruments slur the microtonic scheming-and all his years spent with little ore than Chinese proverbs to comfort him are lost and drowned in a chorus of whangs...