Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich rice fields stretch mile after placid mile across rural Malaya. In the bustling cities, where a new school or factory opens almost daily, the economy booms along quietly. Last week, as the Federation of Malaya celebrated the fourth anniversary of independence, the tranquillity was briefly broken by countrywide lantern processions, garden parties and a parade of 24,000 schoolchildren at Kuala Lumpur's cavernous Merdeka (Independence) Stadium. Said Malaya's pragmatic Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, 58: "We can look back on these past four years of freedom with a genuine feeling of achievement and success...
Loading Up. If he is wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...
...there wi' yer bluidy magic lantern," thundered Scotland's late golfing great, Andra Kirkaldy, when a cameraman dared set foot on the sacred Old Course at St. Andrews at the turn of the century. Had Kirkaldy been around St. Andrews last week, he probably would have heaved his clubs into the North Sea. Heavy tractors trundled television cameras, cables and lights all over the course. Cameramen swarmed over roughs and fairways, technicians and officials thronged the greens, and close to 5,000 Scots followed the proceedings with alternating amusement and dismay. For an 18-hole golf match between...
...Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones in the barn when an opponent rolled over a lantern...
...After his Philadelphia Warriors lost three straight games to Syracuse early in the N.B.A. playoffs, lantern-jawed Neil Johnston quit as coach, convinced he could never handle Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who runs a one-man show on court...