Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They called it the "Pearl of the Atlantic." and, as it usually is with pearls, only the rich could afford it. After Dictator Juan D. Perón came to power in 1943, he turned over several fashionable hotels to labor unions and nationalized the huge gambling casino. From 320,000 visitors in 1939, the resort was soon drawing more than 1,000,000 each year...
...control. One night he has a dream in which he tries to cut Lisa's head off with the hand of a giant clock, tries with all his might-and fails. Next day he says to her tenderly: "I see a girl who looks like a pearl. A pearl of a girl." She glows like a pearl. Then all at once Lisa stops bothering about rhyme, and Muriel makes a drawing that shows her two personalities united in an all-inclusive...
...wanted to invade Cuba or bomb out the missile bases, and those who urged caution. The "most hawklike of the hawks," they write, was Dean Acheson. One of the doves was normally belligerent Bobby Kennedy, who, said the Post, thought that "an air attack against Cuba would be a Pearl Harbor in reverse, and contrary to all American traditions...
...teeming waters around the city. But many slip through the cordon. When tragedy strikes, as it did for the 32 hapless victims who drowned off eastern Hong Kong, the trade falls off for a few days. Then the human cargos begin moving once more across the Pearl River estuary. Says Father Luis Ruiz of Macao's Roman Catholic Casa Ricci, which has sheltered more than 35,000 refugees from Red China in past years, "Nothing will stop this smuggling. Nothing can prevent these people from going...
Died. Irene Pearl Smith Cliett, 63, shotgun-brandishing Texas farmer who, when federal courts ruled against her in a 1958 title fight for ownership of the farm, seceded her 705-acre spread from the Union and applied to the United Nations for membership; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Though all her efforts came to nought, Irene's finest hour was sending her nubile, 19-year-old daughter Angeline to the White House in 1958 to seek justice, with a rusty, 9-ft. chain padlocked around her neck. The key was mailed to President Eisenhower, who ordered secret servicemen...