Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camp Nikita nestles, half hidden, in a grove of rare prehistoric pine trees (each labeled with a metal plate) on the Pitsunda peninsula, 18 miles southeast of Gagra on the Black Sea. On three sides the estate is bordered by a vast state farm; the fourth side is a gentle, U-shaped bay. The beach is broad but rocky; to protect tender feet, boardwalks lead to the water's edge. Four piers, each with a cozy pavilion, jut out into the sea. Dotting the beach are cabanas, each outfitted with swimming trunks and soft towels. In one, presumably...
...American Thesaurus of Slang even lists it as one definition of "a well-formed young woman." All General Motors cars - some 70 million of them, from Chevrolets to Cadillacs (as well as some cars no longer around, such as La Salle and Oakland) - have long borne a little metal plate with the proud phrase on it. The seven stocky brothers who made their name a Detroit legend have faded from most memories; three died, and the other four found the obscurity they preferred. Last week the Fisher dynasty all but drew to a close with the death of Charles Thom...
Still, TIME'S Moscow correspondent, Israel Shenker, set to work. One night at dinner he played host to Harriman and the U.S. press colony -which takes some doing in Moscow, where Mrs. Shenker usually cooks on a double hot plate on the hotel room windowsill, and has the refrigerator in the bathroom...
Shenker enlisted the help of LIFE Photographer Howard Sochurek. who arrived bearing a silver plate on which sat a tremendous pike. Behind came two assistants, one bearing bowls of shrimp, another carrying a roast suckling pig. All of this, Shenker casually informed Harriman, had been prepared in the Kremlin kitchens...
This "float process" is the invention of Pilkington Bros. Ltd., at St. Helens, Lancashire, England, and they have licensed the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company...