Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...same next day at Mar del Plata (a detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...
...that we have a missile "gap," may we presume that the nation will resort to stopgap measures...
Rich & Many. Hungry men tend to start most migrations, but the new westward stream, especially to the resort area just east of Phoenix, was started in the '30s by rich men. Among them: Cleveland Inventor John C. Lincoln, who built the now-famous Camelback Inn on the lower slopes of Camelback Mountain; Chicago Chewing Gum Magnate William Wrigley, who founded the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and started a golf course colony nearby; International Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick, who went a little farther east into Paradise Valley to start what is now the richest winter residential area in the state...
Died. Abraham ("Al") Tisch, 63, onetime clothing manufacturer who in 1946 bought the dilapidated Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in Lakewood, N.J., turned it into such a bustling enterprise with the help of Sons Laurence and Robert that the family went on to build up the largest chain of resort hotels (including Miami Beach's Americana, Atlantic City's Traymore) in the U.S.; in Houston...
Confronted with a dilemma, Evangelist Billy Graham, vacationing at Jamaica's fashionable Round Hill resort, faced it squarely. Sizzling with a bad case of sunburn, he was advised that the best remedy is whisky. But Billy decided against a Scotch skin rub: "Can you imagine what the hotel servants would think if they came into my room and found me reeking of whisky? Why, it would be all over the hotel that Billy Graham was drunk...