Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands. "Usually things like this are planned four or five months ahead," he moaned. But he would try. And right up to two hours before the party started, decorators and caterers struggled to transform the hotel's sedate, continental Crystal Room into a black-and-white striped tent with a "pop-op" decor. Then suddenly the room was filled with 445 stylish, milling guests and the music of Meyer Davis' orchestra. And dancing among them, smiling, shy and lovely, was the person it was all about-Anne Ford, 22, who the next day would marry her sweetheart...
Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...
Dictating letters to cancel out the rest of his 1965 appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...
...Definite Attack. Then, about 36 hours after he was hospitalized, Ike suffered a more prolonged and painful wave of chest pains. A new air of gloom swept the hospital. Doctors moved their patient back into the oxygen tent, continued to treat him (as they had from the start) as if he had had "a full-blown heart attack." After another batch of tests, they announced that the general had indeed been struck by another definite heart attack...
...week's end doctors said that Ike had suffered no further pains and was in "excellent spirits." When he was not dozing in his oxygen tent, he sat up in bed reading westerns or chatting cheerfully with John, Mamie and his brother Milton about "everything from education to Black Angus cattle." It had been exactly a decade, Eisenhower recalled on Veterans' Day, since he returned to the White House after suffering his first heart attack in Denver...