Word: cactuses
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...winner of the Bush-Cox runoff will face Senator Ralph Yarborough, who beat Radio Station Owner-Announcer Gordon McLendon, 43, after a cactus-nasty campaign in the Democratic primary. McLendon, who bills himself on-air as "the Old Scotchman," made shameless use of his radio outlets to boost his own candidacy, rattled on for months before the primary about the liberal tendencies of "Smilin' Ralph". The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman...
Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder began trying to convince the world of the dangers of cancer in cigarette smoking, he has looked as cheerful as a basset hound being dragged through a cactus patch. Last week he looked as sad-eyed as ever, but he had good news for smokers. Cigarettes, he told the American Association for Cancer Research, have been made " less hazard ous" - he would not say "safer" - in the last few years, and they are being made still less hazardous...
Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number...
...much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington to think of his project as a Palm Beach with cactus. "Why," he chortles, "we have so many presidents and vice presidents out here, it looks like a roster of the N.A.M...
...hour, picked up pocket money as college campus representative for Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. He ran for student-body president-mainly because it paid $30 a month-and won. He also met Idanell Brill, a coed who had won such titles as University of Texas Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen. They were married...