Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to spend a week-end in Stratford, it is advisable to make arrangements in advance. While (shudder) New Haven and Bridgeport are not exactly resort towns, there are numerous hotels and motels in both places. The Festival stands ready to make reservations in advance...
...break the bull's legs so that he could be hauled out by mules. Or the peones, or the matador himself, would lure the bull up to the inner fence where an accomplice could jab a dagger into the base of his skull. In Madrid, as a last resort, a pack of hunting dogs is used to weary the animal...
ZILS & Rubles. Comrade academicians, the majority of whom are not even party members, eat at special restaurants, whiz about in big, two-tone ZILS, spend their summers at a Black Sea Riviera resort of their own, are allowed to subscribe to any foreign publications they please and to buy luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump...
...Soft Sell. This curious situation was skillfully played upon by De Gaulle himself, that odd, proud man who satisfied no one but who was many people's choice as a last resort. During his jam-packed Paris press conference at the beginning of the week, the man who boasts that he brought the Fourth Republic into existence gave open encouragement to Algeria's rebellious soldiers and settlers, noted sardonically that they "have not been the object of any sanctions on the part of the public authorities . . . Why would you have me call them sedition-mongers...
...Chicago police have yet to solve a single one of a string of restaurant bombings and burnings stretching back to 1950. were skeptical. "If investigators ... do no more than to go through the motions of making an inquiry." editorialized the Sun-Times, "other racketeers will only be emboldened to resort to similar methods in an effort to silence prospective witnesses in court cases as well as in congressional hearings." Added the Tribune: "That a labor union should ever be suspected of a plot to destroy evidence and punish and intimidate witnesses before a Senate investigating committee ought to dismay every...