Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, grass roots organizational success, although impressive, will never be enough. The fact that the League hears regularly from a Chicago woman every time a military plane's boom damages her house means little; the SST's fate lies with Congress. The House recently voted SST appropriations for another year, and that bill is now in the Senate. Shurcliff is the first to admit that the chances of killing off the SST this fall in Congress look very slight. Only six Senators have expressed definite support for the League. And Shurcliff thinks many people have been confused by the Federal...
After a half hour of these disturbances the police arrived and dispersed the crowd. But the men in blue conspicuously ignored the scores of people on the grass still smoking grass...
...Buffalo Grass. All these demands, but especially the demands of nature, appealed to I. M. Pei. As the designer of Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza and Montreal's Place Ville-Marie, Pei had coped with urban environments but never with a rugged country site. The first designs that he and his associates prepared used a conventional big-city, floor-by-floor structure. All were dwarfed by the mountain. Then Pei took a trip to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, saw how Indian pueblo dwellers built blocklike homes that melded harmoniously with their mountainside surroundings...
...concrete is mixed with a red rock aggregate quarried from nearby mountains, and the building's surfaces are busnhammered to give them a rough finish. Then, to give the site back to nature, the surrounding mesa top, wherever it has been plowed up, is being resown with buffalo grass and other local herbs...
...much has changed. True, the fashion is Bermuda shorts instead of bloomers and Tijuana Taxi instead of Yes, We Have No Bananas. But otherwise the concerts are like snapshots out of an old family album, with folding chairs and blankets on the grass; piccolos and glockenspiels, vanilla uniforms with sundae braid and dangling whistles; waltzes and marches and "special symphonic versions" of Lady of Spain and Ethelbert Nevin's Rosary...