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...hospitality. Chuckwagon barbecues are more popular than polo, and uniformed men (from nearby Camp Carson and the Continental Air Defense Command) throng the scrubbed, tree-shaded streets. In the past five years the Chamber of Commerce has spent $50,000 for a campaign to land the Air Academy. The plush Broadmoor Hotel, which seldom lets an Air Force officer pay more than $5 a day for his room (even a $25 suite), helped almost as much as the climate...
...dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold on to their red plush seats, were too canny to be intimidated. They maneuvered their votes so that Laniel lost his vote of confidence (306 to 293) but not by the crucial 314 votes. The line-up against him included: 96 Communists, 104 of the 105 Socialists, 33 of the 76 Radical Socialists...
...various points along the rack. The new Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, now going up, will have closed-circuit TV to let a guest read a dinner menu on his TV set or give him a look at the nightclub act going on downstairs. In Las Vegas, the plush Sands Hotel is installing a TV detective system to watch over the gaming tables, seek out cheating customers or croupiers (Harolds Club, Reno's massive gambling palace, tried TV for a while, but dropped it in favor of its time-tested system of watchmen who prowl catwalks behind...
...University has never offered plush scholarships for debaters, and no one has ever suggested imitating the colleges that tear apart the local train station when welcoming home a successful team. Carried to an extreme, though, in the forensic world, excessive neglect has left the Varsity Debating Council with neither an instructor nor sufficient funds for its activities...
Modern, sterile John Hancock Hall is a far cry from the Haig, a tiny, dim-lit supper club across from Los Angeles' plush Ambassador Hotel. Yet, with just a few numbers from his low pitched saxophone, Gerry Mulligan, a lean-faced, red-headed young man with a "new sound," proved last night that he isn't far from home...