Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were Britain's Lord Harlech, three of his five children, plus a dozen or so friends, on holiday at El Mansoura, a fishing village on Tunisia's Cape Bon. At one point, there were 17 for dinner, and the kids mostly slept on air mattresses on the veranda. No matter. The nights were velvet, the days filled with swimming and trips to the village markets. Harlech spent much of his time reading and lounging around in a loose-fitting djibbah, blessedly free of reporters. When one turned up to ask the inevitable question about marrying friend Jackie Kennedy...
...morning in town was followed by an afternoon at the rambling summer house atop Minute Man Hill, which has an enormous veranda with a view of Long Island Sound when the sun breaks through the mists. Fortas kept busy scrubbing the winter's grit off the windows. Now and then, he would wheel a load of manure to his wife, Carolyn, who was working on the garden, soggy from the unseasonably heavy spring rains...
Foreigners in Saigon still congregate on the veranda of the Continental Hotel in the early evening, and there the talk is, as previously, all about the war. Many American civilians in Saigon have taken to carrying their own weapons-.357 Magnum revolvers, Beretta automatics, M-16 rifles, some privately owned and some issued by the military. Since many of the Americans apparently have never handled loaded weapons before and tend to gesture with the barrels as they talk, the guns sometimes go off by mistake...
...replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt." Four resort hotels, plus the Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where oldtimers still sip icy martinis on the veranda and watch the river ride by. The presence of the High Dam and the threatened antiquities above Aswan have bred a burgeoning tourist trade, and each day the 50-passenger hydrofoil Cleopatra roars up from Aswan at 30 m.p.h. to visit the historic sites that will soon be lost to mankind...
...obviously gifted child. His mother took him to Ibsen plays in Boston, and he got nosebleeds out of sheer excitement. He was chubby then and no athlete, but he early discovered his talent for storytelling, and used to gather a crowd of his contemporaries around him on the family veranda on a summer afternoon while he held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest, ended abruptly when...