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...knows a garden in a backyard lea where sun has warmed green blood where flowers grow where fruits are ranged by lusters [sic] on each tree, where silence flows: where it is green...
...corporations and set the patterns.* If its legions sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious strivings to find a better way for men, women and children to live together must impress the same observers...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...
...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...
Casual clothes got their first big boost at resorts and spread to suburbia, where housewives needed a single, rough-and-ready costume for the range of home chores, from driving the kids to school to cooking in the backyard. Now leisure dress has invaded the city: even in Manhattan, where women in shorts used to draw unfavorable stares, Bermudas and slacks are now commonplace in neighborhood shops and parks. In the past few years, sales of casual clothes have risen steadily; sales of slacks, sportswear's hottest item, have doubled in four years...