Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLADYS REINHART CLARK Oak Lawn...
...only 10 a.m., but the square in Perryville. Ark. (pop. 719), was already sizzling in 90° heat. Clustered beneath shady oaks on the lawn of the county courthouse were 50 or so ginghamed and gallused townspeople. There were over-ailed men with weathered impassive faces, women with hair combed back severely into tight round buns, country-pretty girls in the early 20s. and children scooting mindlessly through the throng. Silently and intently, they listened as Orval Eugene Faubus, Governor of the sovereign state of Arkansas, told why they should keep him in the air-conditioned splendor of the Governor...
...wrong cat. Arching his back, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "No, I don't like Goodman music. I like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told him that modern art "makes me sick to the stomach," and Nikita bobbed his head approvingly: "It's the same with...
...been home for only 17 days since January. When he wearily pulled up outside his modest, green-shuttered Cape Cod in suburban Upper Arlington, Ohio, his neighbors were ready for him: WELCOME HOME, 1962 OPEN CHAMP read a banner hanging from the roof. P.S., SOMEONE ALREADY MOWED YOUR LAWN...
...professional game provides the kind of competition and heroes a sport needs to excite youngsters and make them want to participate themselves." When the International Lawn Tennis Federation turned thumbs down on open tournaments in 1960, Kramer was shocked-or says he was. "Amateur officials used me for their excuse. 'How can you be for open tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala...