Word: resort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source...
...Senate tremble. But tucked away in a corner of Rome's Villa Borghese park is one of the world's richest collections of Etruscan art, which each year is drawing increasing numbers of visitors. Housed in the massive Villa Giulia, built in 1555 as a papal summer resort, the collection today numbers bronzes, terra-cotta sculptures and artifacts in the tens of thousands, displays its choicest treasures in two floors of one wing that is a model of museum showmanship...
Dancing with Stars. All this triggered a fresh uproar, but it was not directed at young Prince Albert and his lovely princess. Belgians looked fondly at news pictures that showed the engaged pair at a Tuscan seaside resort. And most Belgians rejoiced at hearing that King Baudouin, currently on a U.S. tour, has-away from his father-dropped his former gloomy, standoffish mien, is spending his nights dancing with Debbie Reynolds and his days exchanging unaccustomed quips with newsmen...
Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's top diplomat, and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd hammered out an East-West agreement for negotiations to begin in secret Friday. The decision to resort to secret diplomacy came after 12 sessions of stalemated debate on big issues...
Taking their honeymoon in installments since the royal wedding last month, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko stole away to an imperial villa near the seaside resort of Hayama, some 50 miles south of Tokyo. In seclusion most of the time, they occasionally emerged, sportily attired, for strolls along the beach, seemed rapt in tranquil domesticity...