Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets of how to milk cows!" Boring in with pencil poised, New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson heard a New York neurologist ask Bulganin...
Everything was kosher at the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Palace garden party in London last week. Men came in grey toppers and morning coats, and women in summery prints. As they chatted on the velvet lawn, two experts made sure that the twelve gallons of fruit juice, 3,000 sandwiches, 2,500 pastries and 30 pounds of cake conformed with Jewish dietary laws...
...Joined Mamie in entertaining 812 ailing soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines at the White House's traditional lawn party for hospitalized servicemen. For each of the 812 there was a handshake and a word of cheer and hope. "God bless you all," said Mamie to Airman 2/C Robert Marshall, a polio victim. "I'm keeping my fingers crossed and saying all sorts of prayers...
Little Old Woman. Next afternoon the Armstrong crew held a "cultural exchange" on the Achimota college lawn with some 500 tribesmen, dancers and drummers. After a diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...
...addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly...