Word: gladioli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celebrating his 79th birthday last week, with his famed burning-bush hair do newly cropped, the patriarch of modern Israel lounged on the lawn in front of his prefabricated house at the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev. He accepted gifts of gladioli, roses and wine, together with the traditional Jewish greeting, "You should live to be 120!" "Is that all?" joked David Ben-Gurion...
Girls & Frogmen. Marines are indoctrinated in boot camp that there is no such thing as a "friendly" beach, and as they dashed ashore, they were ready for anything-except perhaps the winsome welcoming committee of Vietnamese girls bearing garlands of yellow dahlias and red gladioli. Even General Karch, 47, and a very tough gent, was hard put to maintain his composure while being festooned with posies...
Marnie. When Marnie (Tippi Hedren) confronts a bouquet of crimson gladioli, the screen goes red. When she spills red ink, she flees. Red coats at a hunt, red dots on a jockey's colors panic her. Why is she so terrified of the color red? Too much like blood, maybe...
...Radziwills, Owner Onassis and Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was in Greece to discuss trade matters with local officials. While the guests slept that night, the Christina, loaded with fresh peaches, black figs and pomegranates, and decorated from stem to stern with red roses and gladioli, weighed anchor and set sail through the Aegean for a visit to Istanbul. On hand to care for the party of twelve was a crew of 60 that included a dance band and two coiffeurs from Athens...
...library in the Manhattan exurb of South Salem, N.Y. (pop. 500) was ex-Vice President, ex-Progressive Party Presidential Candidate and now Gentleman Farmer Henry A. Wallace, 73, a well satisfied borrower from the old library. While furrowing away on his 115-acre farm (chickens, gladioli, hybrid corn) nearby, Wallace had asked the little, 9,500-book library to find him a rare edition of a 400-page treatise published in 1766 called Histoire Naturelle du Fraisier (Natural History of the Strawberry Plant). Sure enough, after shelling out $500 for a surety bond, the library got it from...