Word: tile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after persuading 1,700 Californians to invest $1,320,000, Bayley, now 53 > finally opened his dream inn, one of the biggest motels (329 bedrooms) in the U.S. At his tile-roofed, Mediterranean-style Hacienda in Fresno, Calif, (pop. 91,669), Bayley has king-size (6 ft. 8 in.) beds, individual room air conditioning. A $1,000,000 "activities center" houses a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet rooms, two bars. One of the Hacienda's two swimming pools has a glass wall so that patrons in a basement bar get an underwater view of the swimmers...
...Flying Squad. Back home in St. Louis, the Cards have a thoroughly renovated stadium. There is a new tile drainage system for the playing field, and every tired old seat has been replaced or repaired. Outfield fences have been shorn of advertising (even Budweiser signs are absent) and painted a deep, simple, hitter's green. Among other things, there are 16 luxurious boxes where, for $2,500 a season, upper-bracket fans can whoop it up with waiter service; all 16 are already rented for the season...
When the Lampoon's Great Hall became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
Cinnamon-skinned girls in Dior dresses, starchy diplomats and officers sparkling with gold braid gathered one night last week in the majestic, tile-floored great hall of the Presidential Palace in Portau-Prince. The occasion: a ball in honor of Jamaica's visiting Governor Sir Hugh Foot and Lady Foot. Just at 10, the orchestra blared out a march, and Lady Foot entered the room on the arm of a huge, kingly-looking black man resplendent in white tie, tails and full decorations. His Excellency Paul Eugene Magloire (pronounced mah-glwar), President of the Republic of Haiti and host...
...dress well. Maybe the upswing in sewing-machine and washing-machine sales indicates that she is doing more of her own work than was the case a while back. She wants harmony in her home decorating and cannot afford your interior decorator. Plumbing, painting, electrical work, wall and floor tile, car service and what have you, all feel the influence of this desire and need for 'do it yourself.' " Concluded Choyce: "Man, oh man, think what this means in the sale of goods...