Word: studdedness
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A hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco'...
Keeping the new art movements rolling is the Rhineland's newly prosperous postwar buying public, which is willing to splurge on experimental works. When Dusseldorf opened its stark $2,300,000 modern-art museum last month, the new Kunsthalle boasted not only an impressive display of 16 privately owned...
Catfish Row. Since 1955, one of the principal battlegrounds of the law has been the district courtroom on the second floor of Montgomery's post office, a federal outpost that flies the Stars and Stripes rather than the Stars and Bars that top the statehouse. Frank Johnson's...
Among the holdings of the late actor-director Gregory Rattoff were the movie rights to a little spy novel entitled Casino Royale, which Rattoff's heirs transferred to producer Charles K. (What's New, Pussycat?) Feldmann, who in turn gave it the full treatment: half a dozen directors, an equivalent...
The glaring funding imbalances, however, occur on the state and local level. In 1966 Governor Rockefeller spent $7 million in winning the governorship of New York. His opponent, Frank O'Connor, was able to scrape up only a half million. If O'Connor were to run again in 1970, he...