Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haul was the biggest in months-31 rebels (who were charged with plotting against a foreign state), $30,000 worth of mortars, antitank guns, rifles and medical supplies headed for Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces. Next day, in luxurious homes along Biscayne Boulevard, in such southwestern Miami hangouts as the neonbright Blue Derby Restaurant and the Tropicana dance hall, Cuban faces were as long as a rum sour. And Cubans were not the only residents of Miami with a particular interest in the night's events. The city is a hive of revolutionists; hardly a day goes...
...heard 980 miles away in Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...
...road connecting U.S. Highway 40 and the university stadium be named after Caniff, who is not an alumnus or even a Missourian (he was born in Hillsboro, Ohio). It is further decided that large cutouts of Miss Mizzou, dimpled knee poking through her trench coat, shall mark Caniff Boulevard...
...svelte blonde in a black sheath dress, with mink stole draped casually over her right arm, stopped during an inspection of a new apartment house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week and gushed: "It's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative...
From his new apartment building, Norman Tishman could look down Wilshire Boulevard toward five 13-story Tishman office buildings and the site of a projected 22-story Tishman office building in downtown Los Angeles. Such hustling has in the last few years made Tishman the biggest single landlord in Southern California, added to the firm's reputation as a pace setter for real estate men in other cities as well...