Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holiday Inn located at 30 Washington Street, corner of Inner Belt Road, is scheduled to open January 1974. This ultra-modern 9 story Inn will offer 189 sleeping rooms, an indoor swimming pool and whirlpool saunas, gourmet restaurant and lounge with nightly entertainment and beautifully decorated function space capable of seating 360 persons for business meetings or social activities. The Somerville location is one of 11 Holiday Inns in Massachusetts and New York owned and operated by Northeast Motel Operation, Inc. under a franchise agreement with Holiday Inns...
Halston, né Roy Halston Frowick, is one of high fashion's best designers -and best business minds. Unheard of 15 years ago, he built a custom and ready-to-wear business that will sell $28 million worth of high-priced fashions this year, including thousands of "ultra suede" dresses that go for $220 apiece...
Despite his ultra-British manner, he was an American poet through earnestly adopted nationality and 30 years' residence. Until Wystan Hugh Auden died in Vienna last week at 66, no contemporary writer struck so well or held so long and so humanely the characteristic poetic note...
Resign Demands. William Loeb, the ultra-conservative publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, joined the growing although still small group of those demanding that Nixon resign. "Looking at it from a perfectly coldblooded, hardheaded standpoint," Loeb wrote, "Mr. Nixon has destroyed his credibility and his support, not just with the left wing, but with the average American. They have no confidence in his ability or his skill. They see him as a discredited bungler...
...groups most upset by the impressive show of force were ultra-Orthodox Jews and Jerusalem's 70,000 Arabs. Members of a strict Jewish sect called Natorei Karta (Guardians of the Wall) dressed in sackcloth because the parade took place on the second Monday after Passover, a sacred day of fast. As for the Arabs, many regarded it as a bitter reminder of past defeats. "It was an Israeli invasion," grumbled one young Arab doctor, who watched the show on television...