Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy gives daughter Caroline and son Jack, Jr., exclusive right to play house on the White House Lawn. The Chicago Tribune dennounces the action as "nepotism" and quotes extensively from Woodrow Wilson's letter to his brother, refusing to appoint him postmaster of Nashville, Tenn.... Trottenberg still says the MTA will be running "any day now".... Bundy completes his reorganization of the National Security Council and announces another Harvard appointment: Carle Tucker as director of the new NSC cafeteria. Furcolo in his American column decries the selection and Bundy. "Mr. Bundy is not just a bad administrator," Furcolo writes...
Conceding that some money does change hands at supposedly amateur tournaments, Vice President Ed Turville of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association remarked dryly: "If a player wants to take money under the table, by his own act he is showing his dishonesty." The defection of the tantrum twins would almost surely impair U.S. Davis Cup prospects for two or three years to come, but Turville was clearly reflecting the considered opinion of many U.S. lovers of the game when he added: "I am pleased that they are turning professional...
...rolling 120 acres outside Buffalo last week, engineers started planning the construction of a $12.5 million apartment hotel and a cluster of small cottages, to be called Rockledge. It will have a pitch-and-putt golf course, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, roof garden, sun deck and an infirmary offering 24-hr, medical service. What sets Rockledge apart from other hotel projects is that it is designed to house only retired people-at a profit. Prices will start at $8,000 to buy a living room-bedroom apartment, plus a $112.50-per-person monthly charge for meals and maintenance. The builders...
...Kennedy is planning to build chicken coops at the White House-a good place to raise friars. He is also sprinkling the White House lawn with bird seed-to provide for all the cardinals who will be flocking there...
...shower-taking, lawn-dousing, pool-splashing nation that casually consumes about 300 billion gallons of water a day, it seems curious that water should be a national defense problem...