Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working president of the association will be Arizona Lawyer Denison Kitchel, who managed Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Said Kitchel: "We're hoping for a grass-roots movement-not 50,000 or so people who are getting a newsletter, but 400,000 to 500,000 persons who may contribute from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. This is not a game of peanuts...
Lady Allen's answer is the "adventure playground." Instead of flat asphalt, the lot ideally should have hills, grass and puddles. Its main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: London's Grass Courts Championship by default over the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, 22, who pulled out an hour before the match because of an injured thumb that had become so swollen that "I couldn't grip the racket...
Visitors who have reason to visit Moen, the largest of the remote and steaming Truk Islands in the Western Pacific, will find the usual grass-skirted young women, betel nut-chewing natives, mangrove swamps - and a branch of California's Bank of America. Many major U.S. banks, in fact, are expanding into unlikely earners of the globe, and several of them are growing faster abroad than at home. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank -which already has outposts from Santo Domingo to Dubai, the chief port of the Arabian Trucial States - opened an other...
...team league for so long that G.O.P. officials were elated. To Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr., an efficient organizer who has seeded all of Mississippi's 82 counties with G.O.P. workers, the party's victories represented "a history-making breakthrough, particularly because they were at the grass-roots level." Next year, added Yerger, the G.O.P. will try for all of Mississippi's congressional seats, and will even contest Veteran Senator James O. Eastland's. Said Yerger: "We think Eastland is vulnerable...