Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...
...budget on quantity, on big casts, on halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet, the long evening ends with a flourish-figure skaters on a rink the size of the late Serge Rubinstein's bed. Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room...
Even so, Tunes of Glory is a thoroughly superior piece of entertainment, thanks to Actor Guinness. It is amazing how this shy. soft man can transform himself-with a hank of hair, a dab of rouge and an almost imperceptible modulation of his India-rubber personality-into a roaring extravert, all man and a doorway wide...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...
...supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will begin bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West 100 years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success of his plantation assured, Choate is building a brick house so that...