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However, a Fly Club official reported that while the Fly does cut the lawn on the property it does not do so under any agreement. He also indicated the grass cutting has incurred only minimal costs...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: A Free Garden for the Fly | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...sale of land, which isn't being used for anything at present, is justified, although we hate to see it go." More tea leaf reading on the land's destiny came from an anonymous, high-ranking University official, who said, "You don't expect a valuable piece of grass like that to remain unused...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: A Free Garden for the Fly | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...reached Edenderry Field, suitcoats were off, bowlers tipped back, ties pulled down and disordered. Edenderry is an expansive horseshoe-shaped slope and the speakers' platform was tucked away in one corner under some trees--almost, it seemed, on purpose. Most of the revelers just lounged around on the grass, eating, drinking, or trying to get over hangovers from drinking earlier in the day. And only a small crowd gathered around the platform...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...millions of dollars in prize money have attracted a gallery of international players. The game that was once dominated by Americans and Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith was ousted in the tournament's first night match under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Much Tennis? | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness that it belonged to an order other than nature. Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from the pinched dampness and grayness of England in the '50s, much the same sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stretched Skin | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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