Word: larkspurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOODNER-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. A profusion of still lifes-cornflowers, roses, mums, larkspur -bloom from dainty Rorschach applications of watercolors by the builder-architect who designed the Central Park Zoo. Through...
...owned colt Crossen. Off flew French Jockey Maurice Larraun, down went Romulus-and in seconds the track was covered with seven prostrate jockeys and riderless horses. One horse broke a leg, six jockeys were injured-four seriously-and the casualties included the 9-2 favorite, Hethersett. The eventual winner: Larkspur, a 22-1 choice owned by the U.S.'s Raymond Guest...
...Conrads and thousands like them slept, trailers and turtle-backed Volkswagens and humpbacked sedans piled high with tents and bedrolls, were sweeping along the roads into the Sierra, the highways circling the Smokies, and the byways of Wisconsin and New Hampshire. Through valleys where Mariposa grow, and lilies and larkspur, beyond the cities and into the living monuments of hills and forest and rivers, the camping families were finding their...
...citizens of Luangprabang, the most conspicuous face of the U.S. was that of a redheaded, freckled Irishman from Larkspur, Calif, named Francis P. Corrigan, 35. It was a face they liked. In four years as the U.S. Information Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages...