Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa of a British textile millionaire proved the season a social success...
...Goths. They crowded together in vast enclosures, with their tents squeezed close to each other, and paid from 4? to 30? per night for the privilege of bedding down. As the sleek cars sped by, campers stood at the edge of the road washing themselves-when there was water. For all the tourists this season the Riviera seemed cramped, and the resort towns are blending into each other to form an endless Côte d'Azur city. At no place is the coast wider than ten miles between mountains and sea, and the roads are inadequate. It took...
...hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...
...Baby. Then he went back to the jungle. For his first hospital, Dr. Dooley picked Nam Tha, a tiny village in north Laos. The royal government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken for delivering a child...
Died. Dr. Frederick Sumner McKay, 85, spry dentist who was the first to recommend fluoridating drinking water to prevent tooth decay after he found that fluorides occurring naturally in Colorado Springs' water supply protected the teeth; in Colorado Springs...