Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ancient Point Four. About 1300 A.D., Sears decided, a thriving village surrounded the site of the mound. Its 1,000 inhabitants lived around a ten-acre plaza. At one end was a low earthen pyramid with a temple of some sort on top. The Kolomoki people were prosperous; they raised corn, beans and squash, probably imported at some earlier period from the high civilizations of Central or South America...
After the show, drinking and dancing until midnight are in order. For nice people there are the Shelton Roof for dancing, and the Copley-Plaza's Oval Room for drinking. The Latin Quarter features Lena Horne, while any college man with enough drinks in him gives the performance at the Vendome's Fife and Drum Room...
...Spanish town of Avila (pop. 24,400) was in an uproar last week. "Sacrilegious!" muttered the patrons of the coffee houses on the Plaza de Santa Teresa. "Blundering lie!" thundered the head of the tourist committee. Mayor Jose Maria Martis wrote furious letters to the Bishop of Salamanca, the Cardinal Primate of Spain, the Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites in Rome and the Spanish government. He, and almost everyone else in Avila, wanted a book suppressed and its author reprimanded- if not shot at dawn...
...owner of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, a store which Edwin Goodman calls, with some reason, the "most elegant specialty shop in the world." Last week New York's W'hitneys, Sloans, Rockefellers and 850 other guests turned out to dine & dance at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza at a $50-a-plate party (the proceeds went to cancer research) to celebrate the golden anni-ersary of the store...
...were quite literally hauled in for last month's widely touted rally to launch a Perón & Perón ticket. The Radicals' meeting received not a word of advance notice from press or radio. Police banished the rally to the outlying Constitution Plaza. Two nearby subway stations were shut down to make it harder for people to get there...