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Word: grass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kenneth Galbraith! Apparently he feels that the American people are capable of earning the national income, but incapable of intelligently spending what they earn. One wonders if the no-fins-no-foibles Mr. Galbraith takes issue with Mother Nature for creating wasteful flowers instead of plain, public-sector grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...year-old mother of five who started out as a comedienne only six years ago, she now makes $4,000 a week haunting the U.S. nightclub circuit. She plays Texas Guinan in Elia Kazan's movie Splendor in the Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Killer Diller | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Enclosed though he was in 9-ft. by 5-ft. tank, Biologist Joe D. McClure was not alone: connected with him by pipes were several billion or trillion single-celled algae (Chlorella). Looking like grass-green soup, the algae were housed in tall columns faced with transparent plastic and brilliantly lit by a bank of fluorescent lamps. Parades of bubbles climbed up the columns-and it was those bubbles, enriched with oxygen by the algae, that McClure last week breathed for 26 hours before emerging hale and hearty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Algae for Oxygen | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Laos to be declared neutral is not necessarily an inevitable step toward a Communist takeover. The Pathet Lao, still a tiny minority, are generally disliked in the areas they control. Within the past year, the U.S. has begun the kind of aid program that could in time have some grass-roots effect: an $8,600,000 all-weather road between Thakhet and Nam Ca Dinh. Fortnight ago, the U.S. granted $1,000,000 toward a rural development program of small dams, wells, schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The White Elephant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...people of Cambridge know what that land is," he declared. Although legally included in the Common, the park is actually part parking lot, part entrance to the MTA trackless trolley tunnel, and part walled-in grass strip, site of a Revolutionary War Memorial on a pedestal...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Volpe Vetoes Proposal For Building On Stilts | 3/14/1961 | See Source »

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