Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Souvenir Detectors" [March 24] brought back nostalgic memories of the times when, as kids in a less sophisticated era, we went on these treasure hunts in Atlanta. Our method was to walk to the woods and grub around on our hands and knees for hours, our eyes on the ground. Pushing aside the matted undergrowth and rotting vegetation, we came upon many finds. My brother had quite a creditable collection of Minie balls, spent shells, uniform buttons, and other bits and pieces of unidentifiable metal left behind by Yankee soldiers during the Battle of Atlanta. However, the prize...
AFTER the Kennedys invited William Manchester in February 1964 to write an account of the assassination, Bobby Kennedy thought that the author might whip through his work before the 1964 election campaign; after all, the tragic ground had already been covered by others. Jacqueline Kennedy thought the book would wind up "bound in black and put away in dark library shelves." The publisher, Harper & Row, did not dream of a first printing of 600,000, or of "the bestseller of the century," as it is now freely described. Few foresaw that The Death of a President would become not only...
...reaction to that is a hoot of derision from Architect Jones-and from the U.S. Golf Association, an organization firmly dedicated to the principle that championship golf can only be played on a championship course. The U.S.G.A. stages nine tournaments of its own, including the U.S. Open, and the ground rules are strict. "We narrow the fairways, raise the roughs and collar the greens," says Executive Director Joseph Dey Jr. "We want our tournament to be a true test of skill." That it is. The lowest score ever in the Open was the 276 shot by the magnificent...
...into space-age technology, breezily predicting that Rockwell-Standard would soon be "a $1 billion corporation." Axles, springs and other vehicle parts still account for 65% of Rockwell-Standard's $636 million sales, though Founder and Chairman Willard Sr., 79, got a diversification drive off the ground in 1958, when he bought what is now the company's plane-making Aero Commander division. When Willard Jr. read of North American's plans in the press last September, he invited Atwood to Pittsburgh for talks, met him again a few weeks later on a TIME-sponsored tour through...
...plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing a hospital operations system for Edmonton, Canada, studying ways to improve highspeed ground transportation for the Federal Government, devising a system by which California cities can cope more effectively with their growing pains...