Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing Primavera in an asphalt desert is only part of Mary Lasker's life and work. "I am mainly interested in medical research," she says. "The flowers are just a little thing to keep me from being depressed until a cure is found for diseases like cancer and arteriosclerosis." To help in that pursuit, the Lasker Foundation supports medical research, presents two annual awards of $10,000 each, one for basic research, the other for clinical studies. The foundation also hands out each year three $2,500 awards for outstanding medical reporting in magazines, newspapers, and on television...
...many practice what they preach? Most claim to be too busy. Not Bronx Dermatologist Irving Abrahams, 37, and Rumson, N.J., Internist George A. Sheehan Jr., 46, who last week tied for 46th in the Amateur Athletic Union's national marathon championship, run over 26 miles of rolling asphalt road in New York's suburban Westchester County...
...find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads into waiting trucks as guards gesticulated wildly. On the street, bundles of ballots burst open, and the faces of candidates which decorated each ballot stared up from the dusty asphalt before being wiped out by the constantly passing wheels...
...Ordaz visit was a round of private talks with Johnson on trade, migrant labor, the Alliance for Progress, and the like. But before they began, the Mexicans found out how extensive L.B.J. hospitality can be. Lyndon jockeyed out to meet the Díaz Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even broader than the President...
...There are no public supporters for this wanton destruction except the politicos who initated [it]. There are no beneficiaries... except the contractors, asphalt and other industries which will benefit from destructive construction of a chinese wall to separate the people from their river's banks," the telegram charged...