Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressional investigation ensued; nasty little episode in which a well-known manufacturer, influential in Lawn Tennis Circles for almost four decades, was implicated in a foreign plot to debilitate American youth and admit Ralph Bunche to the West Side Tennis Club. Soon there was a crash program in which thousands of courts were built in parks and school-yards across the country. Weeds grew in the sandlots until the basepaths and pitcher's mounds were indistinguishable, until the "pock ... pock ... pock ... splat ... Gee I think your shot just missed by an inch, Bobby" replaced Chubby Checker singing The Theme From...
...able to relax in the Pine Room listening to piped-in Muzak, or stroll through the formal gardens and the three greenhouses. Muscular Malians can choose between a lighted swimming pool, a bowling alley, a championship tennis court housed in a heated, glass-roofed building or, of course, lawn mowing...
Waiting to see and hear him on the White House lawn last week were 4,800 college students-the better part of 7.900 just winding up summertime Government jobs (TIME, Aug. 17). "I wonder," said the President, "if we could ask how many have become interested in either becoming a politician or a civil servant or a bureaucrat as a result of this summer?" Perhaps 500 hands went up. "What about the rest of you?" he asked. The kids laughed. So did Kennedy, as he began taking them on an informal tour through history...
Many families have switched to apartment living because houses have become so costly. "Around here," sighs one Los Angeles real estate man, "an $18,000 house is a cheapie." Around New York, a $22,000 house is a cheapie. Lawn mowing, long commuter trips and crowded highways have taken some of the luster off the suburbs, and have led to some return to the cities. (New York City, which normally puts up 10% of the nation's new housing, has a special reason for its apartment building boom: to beat the deadline for the first major zoning ordinance change...
COVER Artist Boris Artzybasheff is well known for his gift of playfully animating spaceships, big drill presses, power lawn mowers and other solemn objects. On this week's cover, he has not only given life to the moon rocket, but left a hidden message on the moon for taxpayers to ponder...