Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agents for Candidate Bob Kerr staked out the Hilton's Normandie Lounge as a site for a genuine log cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...
...Spain, which many Americans first discovered this year, they drank manzanilla in fake gypsy caves, trooped past the magnificent pictures in the Prado, and visited the "house of El Greco" in Toledo -in which he never lived (it was built near the site of his home some years after his death). Tourists overtipped cab drivers, loaded up with mantillas, castanets and other trinkets, and thus sent prices up. The bullfights roused strong emotions in them: they either cheered the bull, marveled at the matador, or fainted at the sight of blood...
...plant is Leitz's first in North America since Pearl Harbor, when its U.S. distributing subsidiary was confiscated (the Alien Property Custodian will sell it this week to the highest bidder at an auction from which Leitz is barred). To choose the site, 81-year-old Dr. Ernst Leitz, son of the founder, sent over his 46-year-old son and namesake who thought that Midland, with its lake and nearby rivers, looked enough like Wetzlar to keep the emigre workmen from getting too homesick...
...site he chose for his new place was just a block and a half from the old one, but it was south of Wilshire, which meant eating on the wrong side of the boulevard. That disturbed Mike not at all. To raise money he simply assured prospective stockholders that "the south is so much warmer." The new Romanoff's has no back room, but its cheery main dining room is so shaped that everybody can stare at everybody else without much strain. Business, so far, has been double what it was north of the boulevard, even though capacity...
Representatives of the committee are negotiating with Philip J. McNiff, Librarian of Lamont, for permission to use the third level as a site for the Senior Spread in the event that rain washes the dance out of the Lowell House courtyard. Refreshments will be dispensed from the fourth level, according to the proposed plans...