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Motorists speeding east on U.S. Highway 80 near Fort Worth last week slowed down and gawked at a cluster of ranch-like buildings on the right-hand side of the road. The buildings looked like a motel; but no one had ever seen a motel like Western Hills. When it opens next week, it will offer road-worn motorists 200 air-conditioned rooms and super-suites (many with balconies and wood-burning fireplaces) and a kidney-shaped swimming pool surrounded by bamboo-trimmed cabanas. Guests will be able to get free ice cubes from refrigerators scattered around the motel, have...
...this week because he did not want to leave the battlefield at a crucial moment. In London, before the Primrose League (a Conservative Party offshoot which sponsors social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold on to office at all costs . . . Our affairs drift and bump and flop...
...wall, who stood hours in patient queues waiting for the flashing moment when MacArthur's car would pass, who made the reception for MacArthur-as it was in Honolulu, San Francisco and Washington-something more than a gathering of Americans who love a parade and cluster curiously to see a celebrity. The man in the street, whatever his politics, honored a military hero. The mood was holiday...
...wife of the late multimillionaire Banker Jules Brulatour, came home to her four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around." The trinkets were recently taken from a bank vault, she explained, for a safer country hideaway...
During the week, the Pond is a place to study by, cluster to for a sunburn, and row on. Weekends, couples languish around it, properly dreamy, canoe on the Pond, occasionally go strolling through nearby Paradise Woods...