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...every boulder. Their original 800 acres, broken up into two-acre lots, have all been sold for as much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington to think of his project as a Palm Beach with cactus. "Why," he chortles, "we have so many presidents and vice presidents out here, it looks like a roster of the N.A.M...
Initiation, the entrance of a young man into the conclave of adult responsibility and pleasure, has its own peculiar, ritualistic aura in all historical periods, in religions, in social and geographic cultures. In a time of pomp and splendor, the sound of trumpets may well have accompanied this transition; a joust, a quest, a courtship, a battle--these were great romantic events which marked the metamorphosis. In modern times, the story of initiation has taken a gloomy turn--it has been painted as an end to innocence, an exposure to squalor or violence, a rude "realistic" shock from which...
...Dogs, Memory Lane. From the top of the heliport, which rears like a T square in the sky at the west end of the Fair site, Robert Moses stood in galoshes and windbreaker last week, looking upon his work in all its muddy, megalithic splendor. What Moses saw, however, was not the Fair and the 70 million visitors who would come to gape and ache and learn during the next two years. He saw what would remain after the last hot dog had been sold, the last blister soothed, and the last pageant had hung up its costumes...
...weekends Guy and Marie Hélène drive in the Mercedes or the Bentley to their 9,000-acre estate at Ferrières, 19 miles east of Paris, where high, sculptured ceilings brood over a splendor of blue marble columns, blackamoor statuary, yellow silk furniture, and sepia photographs of ancestors. Every other weekend there is a golf match or a shoot in woods that have recently been restocked with pheasant. The parties at Ferrières, which once awed Kaiser Wilhelm, now hum to brittle conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that...
...jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918. But to Albrecht, competing for glory with monarchs from Madrid to Moscow, it was worth every pfennig. Over the centuries, the treasure grew in splendor and size; its 1,224 pieces rank it with the four largest royal treasure chambers that survived the decline of Europe's dynasties-the Tower of London, the Kremlin, Dresden's Royal Palace and Albertinum, Vienna's Imperial Schatzkammer...