Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters trooped up the cobblestoned streets of little San Marino and into the polling places, there were some who seemed obviously out of place. Amidst the somberly dressed mountain folk of the world's oldest (founded A.D. 301) and tiniest (24 sq. mi.) republic were a number of men in aloha shirts and women with bouffant hairdos, looking like so many American tourists who had wandered into the wrong queue...
CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN is Lonne Elder's play about the disintegration of a black family amidst today's social protest, performed with verve and precision by the Negro Ensemble Company...
...task - perhaps impossible in the short run. Ultimately, it will require not only inspiring national leadership and a more efficient and equitable use of present resources, but also an in crease in those resources. It will be possible only if it becomes clear that in a growing American economy, amidst continuing American progress, there is enough of the good life for everyone...
...Hughes, saying, "He is a mountain, but I'm a molehill." Still, he outdid Hughes by building a 1,519-room hotel, the International, opposite Hughes' new 476-room Landmark Hotel (TIME, July 11). The International cost Kerkorian $52 million and is designed for family-style leisure amidst pools, lagoons and tennis courts; there is even a special camp for juvenile guests. Kerkorian is also the largest stockholder in Western Airlines, which serves Las Vegas and other Western cities. That investment could bring him into even closer competition with Hughes, who is trying to win control...
...stolidly in America's heartland, St. Mary's is an assertive symbol of that fraternal association Churchill bespoke, a reminder of the common heritage of both nations. On simpler esthetic grounds, it stands amidst Missouri's flat plains as a monument of excellence that the uninstructed can admire, a standard that traditionalists can repair to, and a challenge that the creative can strive to surpass...