Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of his formal talks with De Gaulle. France's President walked stiffly outside to greet his visitor. He paused impatiently for photographers, then guided Kennedy toward his second-floor office for the work at hand. The two men settled down in armchairs behind windows overlooking a superbly manicured lawn; between the chairs was a glass table, holding French and American cigarettes. (De Gaulle neither smokes nor likes others to indulge in his office; Kennedy, who brought his own cigars to Paris, abstained...
Like crab grass in a suburban lawn, wild oats in a field of wheat are an insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither cultivation nor common weed killers can hold it back without harming the wheat crop. But a couple of U.S. manufacturers have finally concocted the kind of agricultural magic that farmers have been seeking for centuries: a weed-killing chemical so selective that it can actually tell wild oats from wheat...
Befriending the Bank. The son of a traveling salesman, Missouri-born David Murdock quit school in the tenth grade to go to work, was paying his own way even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...
...chief executive of the state of Alabama whirled into action. "Hey," he yelled. "Hey, don't you all kill that toad!" Patterson jumped up from the table and sprinted across the lawn to save a horned toad, a family pet that is consigned by Tuti to a vagabond's life in the garden...
...touch down on Vienna's Schwechat airfield. After exchanging amenities with Austria's President Adolf Schärf, the Kennedy motorcade will wind through the heart of Vienna and to the U.S. embassy residence in suburban Heitzing, an iron-fenced villa surrounded by four acres of sloping lawn and hidden from casual sightseers by rhododendron...