Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide national leadership...
Personable President Sukarno was presiding at a meeting of his Supreme Advisory Council, only a few hundred feet from the palace. When the firing ceased, Sukarno paused only to grab a long-handled black umbrella and then raced across the palace lawn, was relieved to find that his seven children had not yet come home from school...
...tone poems full of early American nostalgia (Three Places in New England, The Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading U.S. composers. Says Myrick: "He always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick flattered the Queen of Spain into a doubles match (Queen Victoria, with Vincent Richards, beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman...
...back of Clara's Dodge station wagon as she barnstormed from one city to another on the show-dog circuit. Nights, she pulled into a motel, set up a 6-ft. pen, and turned Gossie loose for his exercise, after carefully choosing a smooth stretch of lawn with no twigs or briars that might snag his coat...
...parties that seem to come from a more storied era when only the screen was silent. Gouda-bodied actresses sight down their cigarette holders at producers; social climbers pretend fascination with semiliterate stars. When Taurus is the sign of the time, there is a live bull on the front lawn, and when Leo reigns, a full-grown lion. For Scorpio last week, there was a crocodile as a stand-in for the real thing. "Scorpions," explains the host, "are too small...