Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although snow flurries chilled Chicago, some 200,000 people attended the Chicago Horticultural Society's annual flower and garden show. Farmers in nearby states looked contentedly at leaden skies, which dropped enough rain or snow to bring new hope for decent crops to the parched plains of Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota. "It came just the way we like it, nice and slow," Iowa Hog Farmer Bob Helmbrecht said of the springtime moisture. A National Weather Bureau official called it simply "a godsend...
...when their choice, Clev Er Tell, won. In Round Top, Texas (pop. 64), visitors from Houston, looking for an excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants out of old buckets, ice chests and garden tools. "Hey, you know where I can get a deal on a wash kettle?" one city slicker asked General Store Owner Odies Schatte. "You're not gonna find one," said Schatte. "People bought them all up, drilled holes in the bottom and turned them into planters...
...West Hall about a relative's health. "She's better, Mr. President, thanks," the agent answers. It is 6:45 a.m., the time Carter normally begins his day. He concludes his brief conversation and walks briskly outdoors toward the West Wing, along the colonnade bordering the Rose Garden. He throws open the tall glass door to the Oval Office, strides through that exquisite, historic room and heads directly for his study. Another day in Carter's young presidency has begun...
...last, the Celts should be finished abusing the San Antonio Spurs by Friday night, when the two teams play their second game in Texas. If the Celts don't win Friday, the teams will be back in Boston for a 1:30 p.m. game at the Boston Garden...
...present arrangement began informally in 1955, when Fred Whipple, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, was appointed director of SAO--then based in Washington, D.C. Rather than move from his Cambridge home, Whipple asked that SAO be moved up to the hill off Garden Street where HCO had been operating since the 1840s. Then Cambridge air was clean enough, and astronomy was young enough, for astronomers to make significant observations without leaving the city limits. SAO had a staff of only five people in 1955, so Whipple got the observatory moved without much trouble. The informal link between the two observatories...