Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Kettering became an inventor, perhaps the most successful of his day. He changed a nation's way of life, partly because, like the nation in which he lived and of which he partook, he respected both the theoretical ("Why is grass green?" he asked-and one of his bosses, former General Motors President Charles Wilson, came to use the question as an example of woolly-headed, time-wasting pure science) and the practical ("Remember," said Kettering, "that you and I get no place in the world except as we serve the fellow who pays for our dinner...
...acres planted largely to flowers and specimen trees, three cork-topped tennis courts. They also get an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones and supervised by Ed Dudley, formerly President Eisenhower's pro at the Augusta National. Surfaced in a fine-strained Bermuda grass, the course winds along 7,110 yards of lake, coconut grove, ocean, ends at a Spanish-colonial mansion remodeled into a clubhouse. It goes into use Dec. 4 with a $35,000 invitational tourney for some 30 top pros...
...Grass Widow. In Sydney, Australia, Mary Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband preferred to sleep on the lawn...
Under red, blue, green and yellow lights at a club in Léopoldville's sprawling native quarter, women in grass skirts and men with chalked bodies stomped to the hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then Gerald Tzinga and his Rock-a-Mambo Band took over, and white-shirted clerks sedately circled the concrete floor with their partners. With dances, military parades, bicycle races, football matches and the mass distribution of medals for faithful service, the Congo celebrated last week the soth anniversary of its annexation by Belgium...
...reported Dr. Edwin P. Laug and Chemist Wendell C. Wallace of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last week. Standard of comparison was a collection of old canned foods, e.g., from Admiral Byrd's caches in Antarctica (TIME, March 11, 1957). As expected, because fallout tends to concentrate on grass and thus get into browsing cows, there was some increase in radioactivity of milk and milk products. While this was so slight as to be no hazard now, Dr. Laug warned: "This first part of a continuing study shows that there is something to watch...