Word: well-kept
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...111th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, infested with prostitutes and dope addicts. Up a ways, at 118th and Lenox Avenue, is "junkie's corner," and at the New York Central overpass at 125th Street, over which suburban commuters ride every day between air-conditioned offices and well-kept homes, Negro prostitutes wait for white johns who know the spot and drive by in their cars...
...with look-alike houses, bargain-priced groceries, liquor and clothing from Government commissaries, bowling and Hollywood movies at the service centers. Zonians go in for such back-home activities as the V.F.W., Lions Club and Boy Scouts. They have their own schools (including a junior college), country clubs and well-kept golf courses; 1,600 boats are registered at the yacht basin, and late-model cars are the rule, not the exception...
...pair of pants and one coat. "I got to hate that coat," she says. "It was wasp-waisted and very fashionable. But for months it was my only blanket. After that, I always said I would only own loose, practical coats, just in case." Mme. Nhu's smooth, well-kept hands were a constant source of contemptuous amusement for her tough peasant captors. "I cannot bear the Communists," she says. "They considered me a child, I don't know why. They seemed to have some indulgence...
Axes for Skulls. The expedition ended in September, and sun-bronzed Michael Rockefeller made a quick visit home. There he learned a well-kept family secret that was made public fortnight ago: after 31 years marriage, his mother and father were headed toward divorce (TIME, Nov. 24). Rockefeller returned to New Guinea for a three-month expedition of his own along the south coast; he planned to gather shields, painted skulls and the Papuans' 20-ft.-tall totemlike "bis" poles for Manhattan's Museum of Primitive Art, founded by his father. His efforts inspired little enthusiasm...
...promoters to convert a magnificently battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding, 1,000 acres of well-kept grounds, and a minimum rate ($10) high enough to discourage the cut-rate crowd...