Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...
Johnson arranged for Ashe to go to high school in St. Louis, where he could get intensive tennis training, then eased him onto the tournament circuit. In 1960 and 1961, Ashe won the National Junior Indoor championship, in 1961 the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's Interscholastic title, and in 1963 the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship. He was ranked sixth nationally in 1963 and was made a freshman member of the U.S. Davis Cup team. He did not see much cup action, but under Davis Cup Coach Pancho Gonzales, he has so improved his control that...
...Beverly Hills struck such a sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail of the ice cream man is apt to be a messy one. Observes a Chicago mother of four: "When those trucks pull away, my front lawn looks like a garbage dump. I break my back every day just picking up sticky wrappers...
Even with these savings, Total Underground still costs about $160 extra a lot. But Puget persuaded the FHA that the beauty of a wireless front lawn increased the value of the average subdivisions plot by $200. As a result, the FHA upped its assessments of houses so serviced, allowing local banks to offer proportionately increased FHA-guaranteed mortgages to prospective homeowners. Thus the homeowner can spread the increased cost of his mortgage over 20 years...
...Middle. Pacing back and forth behind his desk, occasionally stopping to stare through the tall windows at the White House lawn, Moyers composes his answers coolly, without hesitation. He never says, "I think," or "I believe." He knows. He took much of the sting out of a recent speech by Senator Robert Kennedy belaboring the Administration for not doing more to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Said Moyers when queried: "If you go back and look at the President's speech at Johns Hopkins, when he said we are not going to build the kind of world...