Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were some happy coincidental signs along the route: in Tucson Ike appeared after a drenching, three-day rain; at Garden City, Kans. his arrival was heralded by a welcome but blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching...
Where does it go? Listed in the 1,249 pages of the 4 3/4-lb. 1958 budget is a staggering array of proposed expenditures, including $587,000 for relocating Botanic Garden greenhouses in the District of Columbia, $26,500 for installing new bowling alleys in the Panama Canal Zone and $590,000 for purchasing 50 hopper cars for the Alaska Railroad (but no new funds for the Joint Congressional Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, which must try to get along on the money left over from the $22,500 appropriated...
...nearly a square mile, cost an estimated $50 million, and will' include schools for young princes, a hospital, zoo, mosque, tennis court, swimming pool and houses for all Saud's wives, concubines, and sons under 16. In the palaces, green neon tubing spells out Koranic mottoes on garden walls, loudspeakers thunderously relay a news broadcast or the chant of a court poet reciting the Koran...
Sharman's spectacular accident would have been a standout in any game. In last week's encounter in the Boston Garden, won by the East 109-97, it was a surprise fillip to fine performances by the greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...
Meanwhile, the Crimson sextet will meet its toughest opponent immediately after exams, when it opens the Beanpot Tourney in the Garden with Boston University. The two teams have split victories in their first two games this season...