Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peking was already more than 2,000 years old when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...
Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). What Makes You Laugh?, discussed by Steve Allen, Alan Green, Sam Levenson, Clifton Fadiman...
CANNED-FOOD prices are climbing higher because of smaller crops and slim carryover stocks from last year. Green Giant Co., Del Monte, Libby, Dole and other canners have already hiked pineapple prices 4%, asparagus 11%, peas, corn and peaches, plan similar hikes right down the line on many of their products...
...also has a slogan for its young people. Exhorts a popular Israeli song: "Go south, young man." But Israel's south, the Negev, is no land of opportunity. Comprising half the nation's land total, the Negev is a forbidding wasteland spotted with the rare patches of green of a few farms expensively irrigated by dedicated pioneers. Yet to determined Zionists, the Negev could provide an outlet for Israel's rapidly growing population (more than doubled since 1948, to 1,700,000) and abundant crops-if there were abundant water...
...Coney Island, and 300 Episcopal delegates on a three-week convention put away 80,000 oysters. Part biography, part social comedy, Author Kahn's book is a diverting and nostalgic nosegay thrown to the past Manhattan's lower East Side was so strongly Irish when Edward Green Harrigan was born there, in 1844, that the neighborhood was known as Cork...