Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish it. Last year Palatine found itself in an even more embarrassing position: without enough money to pay its teachers, it had to resort to a sort of scrip that had not been used since the great Depression...
...Apple Valley, Calif., Long Beach Oilmen Newton Bass and Bernard Westlund developed 26,000 acres of desert land they bought in 1946 for an average of $50 an acre into a plush resort, now use 90 salesmen and a fleet of radio-controlled cars to sell half-acre lots for as much...
...Simmons at a cocktail-drenched Hollywood party in his honor, affectionately gave her a platonic squeeze. This week Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...suite overlooking the Rhine in the Black Forest resort of Bühlerhöhe, a teletype machine clattered out the text of one of the Soviet Union's most cunning diplomatic plays. Leathery old Konrad Adenauer, vainly trying to rest from his labors as Chancellor of West Germany, watched the words forming, and frowned. Impatiently, der Alte picked up the telephone and snapped out a string of orders to his Foreign Office. "I want this thing killed right away," he said. "Kill it. Kill...