Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singapore on his recent 36,000 mile trip ("Perhaps I shouldn't tell you, but I believe the schools were rioting"), he whisked his young audience through 20 different lands, dropping offbeat bits of information on the way. The Seychelles, he explained, are "supposed to be the original Garden of Eden. They grow a double-ended coconut there that is supposed to be the original Forbidden Fruit. I'm not surprised. I tasted some. I think Adam was very ill-advised to taste...
Lost Perfume. There will be a garden party spiced by the presence of Princess Grace of Monaco in becoming sables; there will be parades and reviews adorned by the uniforms of past French glory worn by staunchly republican soldiers. Beneath Napoleon Bonaparte's monument in the Place Vendome 50 French models will curtsy by torchlight as the royal Rolls passes...
...desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation system...
...only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T. Determined to bring back Bradley's basketball pride, the team had started off with a Garden scoring record by trouncing Xavier 116-81, toying with Temple 94-66 to reach the final...
...yawl with a 9-ft. draft, through shoal waters, sailed off with first place in the 24th St. Petersburg-Havana race and a sure grip on the Southern Ocean Racing Conference-championship. "If you do not take hances," Vidana quipped, "you might as well stay home and fix the garden." ¶When The Netherlands pulled its team out of last fall's Olympic Games because of international tensions, 16-year-old Ti-neke Lageberg lost a big chance to show what she could do. Last week, wildly windmilling through the water, she clipped a whopping 11.4 seconds...