Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students to work for two or three months in international agencies. Montana's ten graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time. No campus could be more symbolic than...
Whatever the critics think, Actor Laughton is convinced that his is Shakespeare's true Lear. With his wife, Elsa Lanchester, he studied the play in a facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...
...autographs for kids by the hour, admonishing the unruly to say thank you. During the season, he lives quietly in a furnished home on Cleveland's west side with his pretty, dark-haired wife Carmen, 23. and their two children, Rocco, 3, and Marisa, 15 months. In the winter they move back to their home in Temple, Pa., where Rocky met Carmen in 1953 while playing with nearby Reading. There they keep a jewelry box full of religious medals that fans have sent to Rocky, a Roman Catholic, during his periodic slumps...
...hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...
...Virgin Islands. Rockefeller set up the 600-acre Cancel Bay Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never do. He has lost heavily on a company to build steel prefab houses...