Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles' Watts, the Green Power Foundation, founded and operated by Negroes, is already busy making baseball bats. By summer's end, 300 people will be turning out 1,000 "Watts Wallopers" a day. Giving preference to men with handicaps that would normally make them unemployable, Green Power prides itself on the fact that even though its employees have an average of twelve arrests apiece, it has had no difficulty at all with theft or absenteeism...
...familiar No. 5 and a lopsided grin stood a nostalgic figure- the matchless Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, 53, back on the field in Yankee Stadium after 17 years of retirement. Instead of sporting those familiar Yankee pin stripes, though, Joe trotted onto the diamond in the canary-and-green uniform he wears for his new job as vice president and batting coach of the rival Oakland Athletics. "It's not the same " said DiMag, taking a look around the recently renovated stadium. True enough, as the Jolter spent the rest of the afternoon back in the visiting dugout watching...
Updike devotes three hours a day to writing, occupying a cluttered room above a restaurant off the Ipswich green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate...
...arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1950, scrawny, big-nosed, friendless cabbage green, and lugging three scrapbooks of poems with their rejection slips from The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. His four years in Cambridge were marked by a series of triumphs, marred only by his failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior...
...Drake's reasoning, and a slight majority now appears to favor the theory of extraordinary, vibrating white dwarf stars as the probable source of the signals from space. Said Jodrell Bank Astronomer Smith at the close of the Royal Astronomical Society meeting: "It looks as if the little green men are now white dwarfs...