Word: orientator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...
...cause of the International Style now began to rebel against it. "I became bored with glass boxes. Of course, I love my own house, but I no longer find it interesting to draw straight lines." Johnson began to look for inspiration anywhere-the ancient Greeks, the baroque masters, the Orient, the peasant cottages of Europe. "We are all rebelling," says he, "but we have all picked different ways to rebel against the International Style. I think I am the only one who is history-oriented...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
...ORIENT ROUTE OVERHAUL for jet age will provide major expansion of U.S. Pacific flag routes if CAB and President approve. Six U.S. airlines will get new or expanded routes, with biggest gains going to Pan American and Northwest, the only U.S. lines now flying west to Asia...
Thurs., June 23 Presidential Mission (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Ike in the Orient...