Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved with a rather large stink bomb at a Government House garden party; the editorial headline read simply, LIMEY, GO HOME...
...Austrian-born father founded the firm in 1873, considers himself a just and benevolent employer. The Kohlers dreamed the noble but now old-fashioned dream of providing both "bread and roses" for their workers. To house Kohler employees, the company built on the outskirts of Sheboygan a 500-house garden city, with its own schools and recreation facilities. With its handsome, well-built red brick houses and patches of landscaped greenery, this monument to paternalism, incorporated as the Village of Kohler, may rank as the world's most attractive company town...
...missile fever. In nearby Cocoa Beach, and in towns up and down the coast, missilemen and their families have infected the whole populace with the fever. In motels, bars and restaurants, the prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses; and no sooner does a contractor develop a new weapon than a new motel (e.g., Polaris, Vanguard) of the same name springs up in the scrub...
...Madison Square Garden's 1958 track season ended, Manhattan College's Joe Soprano, a 21-year-old senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd. run. Bates's Rudy Smith supplied another surprise with a fine 1:10.6 for the 600, and Eastern Michigan's Hayes Jones skimmed the 60-yd. high hurdles in a meet record...
Avenue to Madison Square Garden. There, cherubic Union Boss Dave Dubinsky, his arms windmilling from atop a prizefight ring, officially proclaimed the garment industry's first general strike since...