Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the President returned to Washington, his back got a severe test right on the White House lawn. He made a little speech to 2,500 foreign high school students, in the U.S. under an exchange program, and then made the mistake of approaching the rope barriers that held back the kids. Suddenly the screeching mob surged past the ropes and swarmed upon him. Rescued by policemen and Secret Service agents after a riotous struggle, the President retreated to his office shorn of at least two possessions, a handkerchief and a tie clasp. But next day the two Indonesian students...
...resplendent in purple cassock and cape. "Ah, Mervyn," said one friend, "incognito, I see." Shortly after young Prince Charles, 14, was caught drinking cherry brandy in a hotel bar in Scotland last month, Bishop Stockwood was introduced to a parishioner's son at a sherry party on the lawn of a rather staid Surrey rectory. Jovially, he asked the boy: "Have you had your cherry brandy today...
...elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands during a 1960 Davis Cup match in Australia. In 1961 McKinley fought his way into the Wimbledon finals, only to lose to Australia's Rod Laver...
...Stratford, Conn., takes three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. Reservations in advance are advisable, and free picnic facilities are available on the grounds. All performances begin punctually; and, a half-hour before, there is an exhibition of expert juggling on the lawn. Forthcoming issues will carry reviews of "Henry V" and "The Comedy of Errors," which will be played in repertory with "King Lear" through Sept...
GADSDEN, ALA. Flailing away with night sticks and jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured...