Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after-breath. Purists are learning to drink it the way the Poles and Russians have for cen turies: straight and cold. Among artists in the Long Island Hamptons, this summer's favorite was 100-proof Polish Bison Brand Vodka, which comes flavored with a thin piece of stiff grass (the herb Zubrowka) in every bottle...
...good many Negroes in Birmingham, token integration of the police force simply had very little meaning. A lawyer who keeps in time with the grass-roots folks and frequently stops off at Ratkiller's on his way home from work remarked recently, "I see these Negro cops in there with whites. I doubt if any of them have any real authority to do anything...
Then you cross Avalon and see the first of the "Treeline Projects," long chains of two-story apartments built by federal, state, and local welfare agencies. Groups of eight or ten men, young and old, may be sitting on the small patch of grass in front, waiting for another day to pass, thinking about a gallon of wine. And traveling east you may see a poster on the wall of a deserted building urging "Boycott, Baby, Boycott," or just "B---, Baby, B---." Now you're in Watts...
Love of the Land. It was appropriate enough for Governor Pat Brown to accompany her every step of the way. Lady Bird endorsed him pointedly: "No one knows better than the grass-roots conservationists the value of having a believer in the Governor's chair." One quip had it that the real reason for her trip was "to beautify Pat Brown"-who needs all the help he can get in his race with Republican Ronald Reagan...
Nowhere has Lady Bird's beauty crusade had more impact than in Washington, D.C. There her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital has enlivened the city's triangles and circles with trees, flowers and grass, turned the entrances into beacons of blossoms. The principal shopping thoroughfare, F Street, is being torn up to make room for a new landscaped center strip with fountains. Her own personal project is the Capital Mall, where her plans call for sidewalk cafes, gardens, pools and bicycle paths, and a new museum to house the Hirshhorn sculpture collection...