Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players under contract (no team has any. as yet); working out territorial or minor-league draft arrangements with the existing major leagues; leasing, enlarging or building new stadiums after the first wobbly years. Prospects: still iffy. ¶ Open tennis tournaments appeared a certainty as early as 1961 after the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia last week joined the other two members of tennis' Big Three (U.S. and Britain) in approving competition between amateur and professional players. Also on the docket at the International Lawn Tennis Federation general meeting this summer in Paris is a French proposal that would...
...turned in their laboratory-issued clothes to be decontaminated. Their urine was checked to ensure that they had not inhaled or ingested any plutonium. The processing plant and a nearby research reactor were shut down. The buildings were washed with detergents. The buildings' roofs were resurfaced. The surrounding lawn was dug up, and the sod carted to a deep burial place. The surface was chiseled off of a hundred yards of asphalt road. To anchor any speck of plutonium that might have survived, the buildings were completely repainted...
...fleets of bulldozers and an army of sweating workmen chew at midtown Caracas to connect bending ribbons of concrete into a superhighway cloverleaf of supreme complexity. Even before sidewalks are in and the lawn is seeded, self-service elevators begin humming in the flat-fronted apartment buildings that shoot up steadily at the eastern end of the city's valley. On the slopes to the north and south, concrete flows into forms to make walls, patios, retaining walls and swimming pools for low, clean-lined mansions that can cost as much as $3,000,000. Overnight, packing-case houses...
...sister was divorced by Earl Cadogan (who owns one-quarter of London's arty Chelsea district) on the ground of adultery with the earl's former accountant. "If this pace keeps up," said one Londoner, "there will soon be no one on the Queen's lawn at Ascot [to which divorced persons are never invited] except Prince Philip and the Queen herself...