Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True Bounce. Newest of the synthetics is Center Court, a smooth, felt-like acrylic carpet that may give lawn tennis its biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene...
When the sheriff of Maricopa County laid aside his six-shooters and went to Washington, President Taft's cow Pauline was grazing on the White House lawn, and about the only Roosevelt anyone had ever heard of was Colonel Teddy. Dwight Eisenhower was a cadet at West Point, Lyndon Johnson was barely out of diapers, and John F. Kennedy was not even born. The world has changed almost beyond recognition since 1912, but last week, as Stanford University honored one of its most celebrated alumni with a distinguished service award, Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, 89, was still...
...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...
...draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves lemonade on the lawn every Wednesday afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center with a fulltime staff in Matthews Hall. (The social director, last year a graduate student and this summer a class of '67 Cliffie, organizes mixers, tennis tournaments, trips to the Cape, and "amazingly successful" tours around historic Boston...
Worst hit were the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn and the nearby town of Belvidere. At Oak Lawn, a swirling funnel smashed a shopping center, ripped up a trailer park and slammed into a roller-skating rink filled with youngsters. It left at least 30 dead, several of them teen-agers with roller skates still strapped to their feet. At Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said...