Word: edens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the probers fumed, Powell continued enjoying the surroundings on Bimini, which he calls "Adam's Eden." There he has been lolling for a month with his $19,200-a-year "administrative assistant," Corrine Huff, who was Miss Ohio in the 1960 Miss U.S.A. contest. When he tires of his one-bedroom villa, Powell rests up by fishing for barracuda and wahoo from his 31-ft. yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week...
...wife," and announced that he could no longer afford to send her to nursing school. She got a job with a stock company in Sussex, later went on to the Royal Academy and the Old Vic. In 1952, Moss Hart brought her to the U.S. in The Climate of Eden. While working in a Wellesley, Mass., repertory company, she met Ellis Rabb, a Tennessean who had studied acting at Carnegie Tech. They got married, and a month later Rabb launched the APA and remains its strong guiding hand...
...result, some cavers get incredibly secretive about the best places. For years rumors have circulated about a certain Garden of Eden Cave in Schoharie County, N.Y. -- a cave which is supposed to be three miles long and filled with formations--but only a handful of people know where it is, and they won't talk. The attempts to keep a new cave or tunnel's location secret sometimes go to ridiculous lengths...
...their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...
Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...