Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of a schoolhouse. Fisby tactfully gives in, and then to give the people enough money to trade at the teahouse, sort of a rustic Hayes-Bick, he tries to establish them in the souvenir business. The troops won't take the trinkets, and the village is forced to resort to the sale of home-brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed by Peter Larkin, is beautifully done, and drew opening-night applause. Larkin's other sets are fairly good. Particularly effective...
...neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes, author of The Girl on the Via Flaminia, explores an unpleasant Manhattan love affair without writing an unpleasant book. In The Sleeping Beauty (Viking), British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor tells of a middle-age love affair at an English seaside resort...
...appointed commissions to check all state bureaus for graft, and he doubled the state's meager funds by cajoling laggard taxpayers into paying up. At Jalapa, the state capital, he lived in a small cottage outside town and walked to work. Once, when he stopped at a resort hotel in Fortin, he was given a suite. He asked the rate and was told it was 100 pesos. "Don't you think I can solve my problems just as well for 25 pesos?" he asked, and moved to a single room. His happiest days were spent on visits...
...tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water and plumbing; they own cars. And they have taken to spending their vacations at resort hotels that until recently had lived almost entirely on U.S. tourist trade...
...Only in unyielding cases do Payne Whitney psychiatrists resort to the drastic operation of lobotomy (TIME, June 22), in which nerve connections in the forebrain...