Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...order of the day. Leaders of Menderes' Democratic Party were released almost as fast as they were arrested; at the start of the week only 150 were in custody. General Gursel dismissed talk of punishment, said Menderes and a few others would be sent to some beach resort in temporary exile while the country ran off "free, just elections" and got back on an even keel...
...Louse. Obermaier's column has become required reading on casting couches from Berlin to Bel Air. As he travels to the world's watering holes frequented by celebrities, he keeps forked tongue in cheek. In St. Anton, Austria, a ski resort, he wrote of the Shah of Iran's exwife: "On the slopes, Soraya still behaved like a queen, was especially careful not to let any spill mar her majesty. She also refused to queue up at the snack bar. But she had to turn democratic afterward. There was no way of beating the queue in front...
...contracts were signed, the tickets went on sale at $10 to $100 a seat, and the promotional drums began going rub-a-dub-dub. Off to a fancy Catskills resort last week went World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, accompanied by a horde of newsmen, handlers and hangers-on, as he began training to defend his title in Manhattan's Polo Grounds on June...
...husband to complain: "I'm only a Vanderbilt, not a Rockefeller!" By 1943 the fun had gone out of store design, and Lapidus branched into architecture on his own. For several years he worked mainly as a hotel doctor, adding his bright touches to the redesign of resort hotels. In 1954 he got his first major Miami Beach commission, designed the $15 million Fontainebleau...
When he left, he believed that what he had to offer France was "a last resort selected in advance," which Frenchmen knew "could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation." It took a dozen years to prove him right...