Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable "one more": "I'm halfway down to China now, fellas"). At a luncheon later, he spoke feelingly of the "very deep, sentimental meaning" that Abilene still holds for him. From its "heyday of, let's say, Wild West hilarity and even worse," Abilene has become a "community of Godfearing, hardworking, simple people. It seems to me there's a sort of cross section of the deep convictions that truly motivate...
...Brown is no political anomaly and he has contracted a good case of undulant presidential fever. Two Brown agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California...
...Manhattan's Quo Vadis restaurant. Di Nozzi's first significant victory over Doney's was gained by capturing the patronage of shapely Artist Novella Parigini (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954), famed both for her slickly painted nudes and for her girl friends who wear tight slacks, wild hairdos, and exude the sort of animal magnetism that , draws crowds on the Via Veneto. Another Di Nozzi inspiration was the ivory telephones that Café de Paris waiters plug in at the tables. This won the Café de Paris the patronage of many of Rome's ubiquitous movie...
Much can be said of Fidel Castro's wild schemes, but no one can accuse him of lacking imagination. In the high name of the revolution last week Castro nationalized 1) Cuba's bat guano caves, 2) every chicken egg in Havana province and 3) Santa Claus, who has gradually become the symbol of Christmas through much of Latin America...
...laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature, Kieran's thesis always has been: "Let men build and pave to their hearts' content, there will always be many kinds and untold numbers of wild things in the great city...