Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed too much of a showpiece living in his Ciudad Trujillo hotel; the weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when Batista arrived...
...Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help? ("Just my wife and I.") Did he "have servants, cleaners...
Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
...modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...