Word: disneyland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the year-end holidays, the occupancy rate of more than 27,000 rooms in hotels and motels around Florida's Disney World reached 93%-and the superamusement center was so jam-packed it had to close its gates to visitors. In California, Disneyland was also doing record business. As of this week Broadway theater ticket sales are running $6 million ahead of last year's level. Sales of costly Steinway pianos have hit a historic high C. At Stanley Korshak Inc., one of Chicago's most expensive dress shops, Vice President Stanley Korshak Jr. reports that...
This all could have been jolly enough had anyone taken the trouble to believe in it, or at least make it look good. Along with everything else, though, the Arctic looks like a melted dessert, the Viking village like a low-rent neighborhood in Disneyland, and the Vikings themselves like Hell's Angels on Halloween...
...swinging through double flips or slithering along the balance beam with almost reptilian poise, the diminutive gymnast spends her time watching TV, preferably Porky Pig. And at her insistence, the team's first stop after reaching Los Angeles (before they even checked into their hotel) was Disneyland. This is just a phase. Sporting a pink WE LOVE OLGA button, Olga allowed that she had no boy friend now. She added with a cheeky grin: "But I will have...
Massachusetts has had less luck peddling pieces of Otis and four other bases. A group of Bostonians has an idea for turning the Boston navy yard into a construction yard for civilian oil tankers, and another group dreams of converting Otis into a recreation center that would be a Disneyland of the North, but so far nothing has jelled. Meanwhile, the blow that the base closings have dealt to local economies must be counted as a price of U.S.-Soviet détente...
...accounts, West Germany has become something akin to a Disneyland for Communist agents. Last year the Soviet ambassador surprised the Bonn Foreign Ministry by sending a messenger over with a package. He was returning the original top-secret files on the NATO-wide exercise "Wintex 73" (the plan of political and civilian emergency measures to be taken in case of war). A complete U.S. Sidewinder missile was stolen in 1967 from a West German NATO base, dismantled and then shipped in convenient pieces by ak freight to Moscow. By official reckoning, there are between 15,000 and 16,000 Communist...