Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even for Indonesia, things were getting a bit out of hand. The generals decided that the time for tact was past. Machine-gun-toting troops crossed the lush lawn of the Merdeka to arrest Su bandrio and 14 leftist Ministers, reportedly flung them into the grimy guardhouse at Djakarta garrison headquarters. Then Suharto announced over the Djakarta radio, which he had also seized, that he had done it "in the name of President Sukarno," to prevent the Ministers "from becoming the victims of the Indonesian people, who are becoming restless and uncontrolled...
...Crimson triumph surprised no one--at least no one who has heard of court tennis. The game, which bears only a very vague resemblance to regular lawn tennis, requires a fiendishly complex and expensive court. Since Yale and Princeton both have to practice in New York City, well-conditioned Harvard gentlemen with access to the only court in New England have consistently outpaced them...
...playing this game for about six years," Pell commented, "and I've never ever successfully explained it to anyone." There are elements of squash, badminton, and even horseshoes mixed into the sport. Fortunately, someone once adapted the game in a simpler court and devised simpler rules. The result was lawn tennis...
...helicopter bearing Hubert Humphrey eased deliberately through the chill twilight so as not to reach the White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
...Journal succeeds, however, in its breadth of scope. The authors, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences, have written on topics ranging from Los Angeles to Rhodesia, from suicide to the symbolic meaning of a well-kept lawn, from a study of Negroes' reactions to Harvard to the origins of Pan-Africanism. Although a few of the articles are scholarly, the aim of the Journal does not seem to be erudition; it is a platform for under-represented opinions and theories...