Word: patios
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...hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, tiled in marble, lit by gas and roofed with crystal. But as modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed...
After a March wedding in Chicago, Jay and Sharon will live in his $75,000 home in the South Hills section of Charleston. Though Jay's spread occupies 15 well-manicured acres, the house itself is a modest five-room brick structure. But it does boast a large patio, and if Sharon would care to add another amenity or two, she need hardly feel limited by her husband's $1,500-a-year state salary...
...offered L.B.J., who says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...
Cook County state's attorney's men, sheriff's deputies, state police and FBI agents. As best they could, the investigators reconstructed the murderer's moves. The intruder, it seemed, had entered the 17-room mansion by way of a flagstone patio on the lake side of the house, slashed an opening in a copper-screen door, then used a glass cutter to remove a pane in the French door. The killer reached through the hole to open the door from the inside, then crossed the slate-covered floor, climbed the 18-step staircase, walked stealthily...
...illness, or, all else failing, agree to a mutual cancellation. The King was not interested. Next morning, the day on which Feisal was to be feted in New York, Lindsay canceled the affair, which, by some stroke of wit or innocence, was to have been held in the Blumenthal Patio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, up for a third term, also refrained from paying Feisal a scheduled courtesy call...