Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a taste for monuments, General Miguel Molina, prefect of Cuzco, decided one day a century ago to dress up the city's main plaza. He thereupon put up a bronze fountain, embellished by four Tritons and topped by a 5-ft. bronze statue identified as Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...
...week, Lover Boy is making the La Ronde Room pay off. One of the warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which...
...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship last Friday and Saturday with an overall record of 32 wins and 58 losses. The contest was held at the Hotel Concourse Plaza in New York...
...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the first half of the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship at the Hotel Con-course Plaza in New York City yesterday...
...people can ever live in the city-compared to the 55 million who could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond the prescribed limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon" business districts lining block after block of arterial streets in residential neighborhoods. ¶ Better...