Word: resort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm aplomb of an old pro accustomed to having his way. But the man he had designated as new pope-or rather as his party's candidate for President of Germany-was getting less sure by the hour that he wanted the job. In the Black Forest resort where he was taking the health cure (TIME, March 9), Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was confronted by laundry hampers full of mail. Thousands of letters and telegrams from small businessmen, farmers and labor leaders urged Erhard to resist all attempts to kick him upstairs...
...foundation 25 years ago, insists on calling his plant a "unit"-he is equally opposed to such "emotionally charged'' words as sanatorium, hospital and institution. Two miles out of New Canaan, its 50 acres bisected by the Silver Mine River, it looks like any New England resort hotel. It has no barred windows or guards, no locked doors for its capacity (usually filled) of 60 patients. Among its fulltime staff of 75, the seven doctors and four registered nurses never wear white coats. The aim: gracious country living without country-club frills...
Medical Mystery. Among Dr. Adams' patients in the coastal resort of Eastbourne was wealthy old Mrs. Morell, who had suffered a cerebral stroke in 1948. For her Dr. Adams prescribed 1,629 grains of barbiturates. 1,928 grains of Sedormid (a sedative). 164 grains of morphine and 139 grains of heroin, over a period of ten and a half months. At the end of that time, 82-year-old Mrs. Morell died and was cremated. Six years later, after police investigated his treatment of Mrs. Morell and other patients, he was charged with having murdered Mrs. Morell by administering...
Erhard had taken himself to a Finnish sauna at a Black Forest resort last week to sweat off some of his 240 Ibs. in the steam bath and to be worked over by his masseur. The phone call was from Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn. Wrapping a towel around his midriff, the professor padded to a dressing-room telephone...
...buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down $1.2 million in one week, bringing to more than $30 million the total for lots purchased in the first Salton Sea resort development...