Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even when surrounded by admirers he somehow seemed lonely. He was a completely sophisticated citizen of the world; yet he was at home only on his Libertyville, Ill., farm, chatting with friends in the library or expertly driving a tractor over his 70 acres. "I know every blade of grass and every tree," he once said. "I like to watch them grow, and I hate to be away from them...
Stretched out casually on a plot of Business School grass, the setting sun glinting off his freckled pate and space capsule cufflinks, Glenn talked about himself last Thursday with a pair of Summer News reporters. He came to Harvard to address an annual summer school educators conferencet, being held this year on juvenile delinquency, at the invitation of Dana Cotton, dynamic, multi-titled Harvard administrator. They met one day when Glenn walked into Cotton's office with his son David (now Harvard '68) who was looking the University over...
SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). As a writer trying to escape the joys of New York living, Walter Matthau discovers just how green the grass is when he and Wife Anne Jackson have to hole up in a spare room in a bowling alley while their newly acquired farmhouse is being cleared of its Country Mouse...
...treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass...
...good when the tread peeled off a tire at 150 m.p.h. and the left rear wheel of his Lotus collapsed. Old Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same evil luck dogged Clark in Europe all summer: he won three out of his first five Grand Prix, seemed well on his way to a second straight championship when all sorts...