Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been considered by its devotees among the Pacific's finest deep-sea fishing areas. The long-established Kona Inn. a barracks-like octopus of a place, captures much of the millionaire trade. But it is about to acquire a new rival. Promoter Laurance Rockefeller has leased a large tract around Kaunaoa Beach, hired Architects Skidmore. Owings & Merrill to design a $12 million, 150-room resort hotel intended to provide every luxury anybody is willing...
...home of the University of California's main campus and of nine Nobel prizewinners, Berkeley likes to think of itself as more enlightened and sophisticated than all of those tract-house havens across the bay from San Francisco. Last January, in keeping with the community's idea of itself, the Berkeley City Council passed an exceedingly tough ordinance against discrimination in housing...
When the city government lacked funds to buy the site for the new jet airport, private citizens bought the land, held it until the authorities arranged financing, then sold the tract to the city at cost...
...come from a bishop sworn to defend the church against heresy. "It is not every day," grumbled the Church Times, "that a bishop goes on public record as apparently denying almost every Christian doctrine of the church in which he holds office." The Manchester Guardian called it a "dangerous tract," suitable only for theologians to read, and in a front-page editorial, London's Daily Mail wondered "whether he should continue as a bishop...
There seemed good reason for concern, for Saud is supposed to be suffering from hypertension, a weak heart, a polyp in his digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors...