Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American twist wins a lot of tennis matches- but a British twist finally won the big one. A twist of the arm that is. Faced with Britain's decision to ermit professionals as well as amateurs to compete at Wimbledon this year, representatives of the 65-nation International Lawn Tennis Federation met in Paris and voted "unanimously" (two unidentified nations abstained) to sanction open tennis on a worldwide basis thus granting the pros first-class citizenship at last and freeing the sport from the shackles of "shamateurism...
Johnson probably wrote more of the speech than any major talk he has ever given. Saturday afternoon he toiled over it in the sunshine on the south lawn. Working past midnight he went over it line by line, carrying pencils and i draft of the speech with him all weekend to sitting-room and dining-room, bedroom and study...
Today's curlers slide a 44-lb. block of highly polished granite that looks like a wheel of cheese with a handle on top. And the game has evolved into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will...
...history major from Washington, D.C., who hoped that the instant cemetery would symbolize the fact that today's "students really are faced with death." Some 60 students worked for two days to assemble the crosses, then planted them hurriedly, fearful that they might be accused of damaging the lawn. But university authorities, impressed by one of the most dignified-and wholly nonviolent-anti-Viet Nam demonstrations of the academic year, left the crosses untouched all day long. They were removed the next morning by campus maintenance...
...White House, after Kennedy had indicated that he would run, Lyndon Johnson lowered his cheerful fa cade. Oscillating in his rocking chair, jingling the coins in his pocket, the President squinted out over the south lawn and told a visitor in brooding tones: "Bobby Kennedy has been a candidate since the first day I sat here...