Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain amount of tradition. Because of his position, Lyndon Johnson was placed at the head of the receiving line, and Luci had her first dance with him instead of with her bridegroom. Luci also set a new pattern for brides when she and Pat went out on the south lawn and, stooping down in her wedding regalia, she patted the collie and two beagles. The first people through the reception line were Speaker and Mrs. John McCormack, two of Washington's social hermits, and Luci showed that she was her daddy's daughter by lavishing effusive attention...
...couples clustered at 8 p.m. or so to nudge croquet balls on the House lawn. As more people showed the gateman their invitations or spoke the password, "swordfish," the air became thick with smoke from Danish tobacco...
Marge Farber, once divorced, had an eye-catching schoolgirl figure. Her husband tended to interest himself in puttering around his lawn and rhododendrons; Marge, who seemed restless, took lessons in riding, golf, interior decorating. The Coppolinos and the Farbers naturally got to know each other. Recalls Marge: "We just met like neighbors do in a town, on the street. Carm and I were really good friends." So were Marge and Carl...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...strictly on your knees, girls, for 90 minutes," she snapped back. Last week she gave out details on the bridesmaids' dresses-with the warning that anyone who jumped the release date would be banned from the wedding: "A large guillotine will be erected on the South Lawn for minor offenders." First head to roll was that of Women's Wear Daily, which printed a complete sketch of one of the dresses on its front page three days before release date. An irate Liz immediately bumped the publication from the wedding list...