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Cats & Dogs. The business of selling flowers in the U.S. now amounts to more than $800 million a year. Men still order more flowers than women, send so many on birthdays and anniversaries that many florists now keep card files, mail out reminders each year. The hardy rose remains the perennial bestseller; more than $30 million worth are sold each year. Flowers arranged and put in vases at the shop are growing rapidly in popularity-partly because overworked nurses no longer have time to arrange the floods of flowers that hospital patients receive each day. Though small arrangements sell best...
After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...
...Painful Duty." The President spoke in tones of personal pain. "I do not find it easy," he said, "to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. I have spoken to you today of the divisions and the forces and the battalions and the units, but I know them all, every one. I have seen them in a thousand streets of a hundred towns in every state in this Union-working and laughing and building and filled with hope and life. And I think I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow...
...sorties from the garden of his white-walled studio house, Les Collines (The Hills), past the orange trees whose fruits lie rotting on the ground, along lines of spear-like cypresses and sun-baked terraces exploding with olive trees, down to Avenue Henri Matisse, then cuts off to rocky, flower-lined paths unknown to tourists. After an hour, he re-emerges, sweat pearling on his pale forehead, but refreshed and ready for work...
...people of Seoul did not share Park's restraint. Fully 300,000 of them lined the streets to dab at their eyes or simply gaze in respect as the flower-bedecked hearse carried Rhee on his last trip to Pear Blossom House, his old residence...