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There was nothing wrong with the weather in Atlanta-at least until the north wind blew. A crowd of 150,000 turned out to cheer the Atlanta (formerly Milwaukee) Braves as they paraded down Peachtree Street in the company of the Dogwood Festival queen, Mrs. Atlanta, the Queen of Posture, and a whole hutchful of night club bunnies-blinking in the unaccustomed sunshine. It was still 70° at 8 p.m., and 50,761 excited fans jammed the city's new $18 million stadium to watch the Braves take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in the season's first...
...last week attracted some 300,000 flower lovers, who paraded through the Coliseum for the first, if fleeting, glimpse of spring. More than ever, it was a strange hybrid of beauty and banality, a midsummer's daydream constantly interrupted by nightmares. Lush gardens with brooks and splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter...
...from garden-club la dies, Sunday drivers, bird watchers, country editors, city mayors, and all manner of green-thumb lobbyists. Residents of Wayland, Mass., held an art show to dramatize the need for cleaning up the town dump. Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes offered prizes for the best dogwood-redbud plantings in a statewide prettification program...
...hybrid dogwood. "Eddie's White Wonder," sold by Ohio's Wayside Gardens, is a cross between the Northwest's magnificent Cornus Nuttalli and the East's hardier Cornus Florida...
Over & Around. Not last week. Two days of rain washed out most of the practice rounds, but on opening day, the Georgia dogwood glistened in a warm spring sun, and the pros responded by giving the tough old Augusta course the worst first-day flogging in its history. In all, 15 players broke par (72), and at day's end five were deadlocked for the lead with 69s. One of them, of course, was Palmer. "Uninteresting," he called his round. Another was South Africa's Gary Player, despite an attack of tonsillitis that left him croaking like...