Word: tiling
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EIGHTEEN fancy Southwestern motels, anxious to give motels a better reputation, have banded together into a blue-ribbon trade association, the Master Hosts. Qualifications for membership: year-round air conditioning, tile baths, a swimming pool...
...fortune of $50 million in gold in four years. At war's end, Bodo, then 25, was "the richest Greek in the world." But, four years later, when Kemal Ataturk threw the Greeks out of Turkey, he was wiped out again. He moved to Athens, got into the tile business, and went bust once more. Says he: "I had to start again from the letter alpha...
...institute had originally field plans to set up each a station early last spring before the F.C.C. announced that it was releasing F.C.C. channels for educational use. The state committee must now tile a plan to put such a channel in use in June 2, otherwise the station will be released for commercial...
...strictly an assignment for an assistant curator. Workmen tearing down a tile factory in a Paris suburb had come upon some interesting old masonry embedded in the factory wall. Georges Poisson, assistant curator of the Ile de France Museum at Sceaux, traveled over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"-the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
After Louis died in 1774, his hideaway fell on hard times. Louis XVI never used it, and during the French Revolution the royal residences at Choisy-le-Roi were wrecked. For a time, a locksmith occupied the site of the Petit Château; later a tile factory was built on the grounds. No one dreamed that so much as two stones of the old building, with its rich trim and fine, high windows, were left standing...