Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing their time in minimum security prisons-unfenced facilities with no armed guards and no violent convicts. The two camps have acres of grassy lawns. Mitchell's borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose to go to bed. Haldeman is living in a cubicle in a 30-man dormitory. Mitchell...
...mandolin all the way from Fort Wayne to Nashville without stopping!" he thunders into a microphone. "Don't nobody think I can't play all night if I want to!" As the crowd cheers, the big man leans forward and madly strums the opening riffs to Orange Blossom Special. Says a woman in the second row: "I just love it when Bill gets to roaring like that...
...roaring lion is Bill Monroe, 65, the patriarch of bluegrass music for more than three decades. The setting is Bean Blossom, Ind. (pop. 200), a hilly, country village where Monroe has now staged eleven annual bluegrass festivals. The fiddlers, pickers and fans at Bean Blossom are part of a steadily growing phenomenon. Before the year is out, some 500 bluegrass festivals will lure countless thousands of Americans to county fairgrounds, college campuses and places like Cumberland, Ky., Spruce Pine, N.C., and Grass Valley, Calif...
Jeff Hill is not jousting imaginary windmills on a hobbyhorse for the Harvard basketball program will definitely need administrative support if next year's talented batch of cagers is to blossom...
Jones succeeded so well that in ten years he took over as president. Over the next 41 years, he saw his country school blossom into Grambling State University, legendary in pro football and a leader in remedial education. At 71, Jones is finally retiring this spring. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan visited Grambling to talk with him about his half-century in black education. Her report...