Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for restless Senators: the President has all the lines, while Congress listens and in visibly adjusts. For Robert Kennedy, this season has been especially bleak because of the unfavorable and boring publicity surrounding the Manchester book controversy. All in all, an excellent moment for a selective tour of Western European capitals-to pick up some information, be cooed at by statesmen, oohed at by everyman, and make a few headlines at home having nothing to do with that book. Which is exactly what happened...
...upcoming $466 million merger with another profitmaker, St. Louis' Peabody Coal Co., second largest in the U.S. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, biggest in the U.S., highballed through 1966 to consolidated earnings of $90 million for a 29% gain over 1965. Yet the Pennsy finished behind the Norfolk & Western, which Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders once headed and now blames for delaying the Penn Central merger. N. & W.'s profits rose 8.6%, to a record $98 million, even though it paid the Pennsy some $10 million-which accounted for almost half of Pennsy's earnings gain- to buy back some...
Nothing is better calculated to keep dollar-laden American tourists away from a foreign land than the prospect of uncertain comforts. Even business men tend to shun outposts where the hot water runs cold, the cold water may be undrinkable, or the food too bacterial for tender Western stomachs. Nearly a score of underdeveloped countries have overcome the problem of sleazy accommodations - and so bolstered their economies - by turning to Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...
...experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe and the U.S. for a free look at the Phoenicia. Soon their clients filled it close to capacity, and it is now a gem of the chain. "We are a catalyst for economic growth and trade," says Gates. Case in point: after the Karachi Intercontinental opened in mid-1964 with...
...younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground for older Eastern and Mid-western families. Notable among them are Vanderbilts, Phippses, Dodges, Guests and Sanfords. The top social leaders are Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Mrs. Post, and Mar-A-Lago is one of the liveliest places in town...