Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that once were streets...
...least one night you should stay up with her. Feel her pulse after the lights go on and remain after they go off again. Hang about a Village coffee house to overhear a cerebral young man intellectualize a girl from the New School into sharing his pad. Take in a wee-hours' movie bill (adults only) at one of the 42nd Street houses between Sixth and Eighth Avenues. Go for a sandwich at Reuben's (6 East 58th St.) and pick up dessert at the all-night vegetable stand east of Third on 59th...
Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a fashionable stork pad for East Side society, was dismayed. But West Side Story Star Carol Lawrence, 30, was determined. After taking a $40 stamina-building course in what its fans these days call "educated childbirth," she wanted that "do-it-yourself feeling." So she did it and felt it, and two weeks after 7-lb. 9-oz. Christopher was delivered, she held a press conference to tell about it. "It beats any show I've been to," trilled Carol, who had stayed awake all through her own production and was later told...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica. We shall have to do something about it. I fear I've written far, far too many lyrics." A Bit Far. Still he goes on writing them like a mad dog in the midday sun. He has a coop above Lake Geneva in Switzerland and another pad in Jamaica. The Jamaica setting is apparently perfect for glib, swift masters. The late Ian Fleming, after lolling in Coward's guesthouse for a time, bought his own place near by. "God, I miss him," says Coward. "He was so fabulously intelligent. Nobody quite appreciates how very, very good...
...tall, strong blonde," a Pitzer College admissions officer scrawled enthusiastically, in summing up the qualifications of a bright and idealistic student applicant. Personal evaluations count heavily at California's intensely informal Pitzer, where the teachers lecture in shirtsleeves, barefoot girls pad into class carrying Cokes, and the janitor speaks his mind at faculty-student meetings so tumultuously democratic, says President John W. Atherton, "that the only way I can restrain myself from yelling is to walk out with great dignity." Destruction of Innocence. Endowed by Orange Grower Russell K. Pitzer with a $1.2 million trust, the school nestles...