Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pollen blew from sycamore trees in Southern California, from orchard grass in Tennessee, from the oaks of New England. Pollen was blowing everywhere in the U.S. last week, and all over the country hay fever victims knew it. Sales of such over-the-counter antihistamines as Coricidin and Allerest climbed with the pollen indices. Noses itching and eyes stinging, patients ran to their doctors for the more potent prescription drugs. Almost three months before the debut of the most debilitating pollen of them all-ragweed-the hay fever season had arrived with a loud sneeze...
...which he was a junior officer at invasions in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Normandy, a successful Cincinnati law practice. His family (Wife Blanca, Sons Robert A. Taft II, now 20, Jonathan, 7, and Daughters Sarah, 18, Deborah, 15) was a political asset too. But he felt he needed grass-roots political experience...
...College in Pennsylvania, studied physics, graduated with a B.A. degree in 1942. Even before that, he had fallen in love with flying. "Whenever an airplane went by, everythin' stopped for me." In his senior year at college, he and a friend decided to try their wings at a grass airfield at Waynesburg. The event had something of the character of a corn-silk smoking session behind the barn. "I tell you," he says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin' on the way. I kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong...
...these mechanized grass cutters are far more dangerous than that vanishing antique-the man-powered machine. But injuries that occur when hands or feet come in contact with whirling blades, though frequently serious, are at least obvious...
Separate Planes. With his wife Oona and his huge family, Chaplin lives in the village of Vevey in a 15-room villa called Manoir de Ban, staffed by 13 servants, including two nannies. From its 69 acres of grass and gardens, the Chaplins have a panoptic view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc range. They seldom go out to mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests...