Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Theodore Francis Green, 91. Beginning a 21-day visit to the U.S., the King of the Belgians crisscrossed Washington with the crowded schedule of a dignitary and the limitless curiosity of a high school student on a senior-class trip to the capital. He laid wreaths at Mount Vernon and the Tomb of the Unknowns, was briefed on outer space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, lunched in the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, discovered a portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging...
...poverty. They show visitors the new housing project across the river from Ciudad Trujillo, but it is very small potatoes compared with the slums that make up the bulk of the city. The hovels are all freshly painted, generally an ocher or a sky blue or sea green, with a barn-red trim framing the doors and windows. That's the way El Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks, so old and termite-riddled that they list crazily against one another. The children...
...wife, a mother, and publisher and editor of Seventeen, but Enid A. Haupt, 53, is also a green-thumb gardener. When she visited Manhattan's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Enid Haupt marveled at its superb equipment and the dedicated ingenuity of its staff. But she bemoaned the fact that children may spend several months there completely cut off from nature. Why not, she asked Director Howard A. Rusk, give them a garden to work...
...those who like their shoot-'em-ups on foot instead of horseback. Some noisy nostalgia for the hard, big-city hoods of the '20s and an even harder real-life cop: Barney Ruditsky, a detective who has long since deserted New York's finest for the green-backed life of a private peeper...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Out of the Dust, a tough story about the Old West by the late Lynn (Green Grow the Lilacs) Riggs, gives Charles Bickford, Uta Hagen and Wayne Morris a workout in jealousy, greed and patricide...