Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader in luxuries such as electric trolleys and street lights, telephones, and Sarah Bernhardt appearing at the Forest Park Theater in Camille...
Afterwards, rooters swarmed over Choreographer Robbins, who could only mutter "Thanks, thanks" as he wandered in a happy daze backstage. The chic mob then swept on to Sardi's, finally swarmed to a full-blast party given by balding, burly Producer Roger Stevens at Park Avenue's Ambassador Hotel. There the dark-haired girls and long-sideburned boys of the cast gulped champagne, danced to music from My Fair Lady...
...Detroit this week, architects are busy on plans to convert the bustling, downtown Park Avenue Hotel (240 rooms) into a home for the aged, to be run by the Salvation Army, and renamed Eventide Residence. The Roman Catholic Church has just finished converting the downtown Detroiter (750 rooms) into a rest home named Carmel Hall. In Dallas, eight blocks from the center of town, the 126-room Ambassador Hotel has become a residential hotel for the aged (part of a six-state, 13-hotel chain for old people). One of the specifications of a projected home in Atlanta is that...
...After running in the money nine times at Belmont's beautiful horse park but never winning a race, Mrs. Jan Burke's brown horse Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 68 member nations of the International Monetary Fund met last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...