Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...Hollywood with 31 hours' worth of color footage to be cut down to the final 3 hrs. 17 mins. To Lean, who made his reputation in the mid-'30s as a film editor, cutting is the ultimate art and his all-engrossing love. He moved into the stucco cottage on Metro's Culver City lot, formerly a schoolhouse for Child Stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Liz Taylor, and began the ordeal that for the past ten weeks has kept him in the cutting room until 2, 3 and, over last weekend, until...
This Detroit daydream come true was made possible last week by the opening of a new superhighway that bypasses "Gasoline Alley," an elevenmile stretch of road south of Hartford with 18 stop lights and heavy local traffic, lined on both sides with aluminum diners, neon-lit drive-ins and stucco motels...
...South Korea's 15,000-man Blue Dragon brigade at Cam Ranh Bay last week, the allies' combined strength rose to nearly 750,000. Orders for the Vietnamese forces issue from the quiet, air-conditioned offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two acres of yellow stucco French colonial buildings in Saigon that once housed the French high command. Chief of State Thieu heads it. Downtown, in his offices on Pasteur Street, the American commander in Viet Nam, General William C. West moreland (TIME cover, Feb. 19), presides over the complex of U.S. commands ranging from Lieut. General...
...body is 99% Negro. Watts is a slum-but not in the Eastern sense. There are no rows of mul tiple-story tenements or concrete canyons. Its streets are generally broad, occasionally tree-lined and bordered by dusty lawns. Its dwellings are mostly one-and two-story frame and stucco houses. But in the small rented houses and apartments, money-short Negroes often crowd four and five families; children are left alone while parents work, and youths roam the streets seeking relief from the monotony of daily life. Watts is part of the Black Channel, a 72-square-mile area...