Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE SHERMAN IN GEORGIA, the trend in watery luxuries for the home--water beds, Water Pics, and vibrating shower heads--marches relentlessly back to the sea. Gone are the days when a lawn sprinkler and a fish bowl sufficed to adequately furnish a home with aquatic appliances. In recent months advertisements for a $1200 bathtub have been catching the eye of readers of national magazines. California--birthplace of car customizing, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Jerry Brown--now offers what may prove to be the new wave of America's vassergeist: California Hot Tubbing...
...section employees painted the house annually. They also built a front portico, dug a fish pond and equipped it with a pump and lights, and made shelves, telephone stands and an Oriental fruit bowl for Hoover. They repaired his air conditioners, stereo equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring, lawn mowers and a snow blower. They sodded portions of his yard, installed artificial turf, planted shrubbery, built a deck in the rear of the house, a redwood fence, a flagstone court and sidewalks. They designed and constructed a power-operated window, reset clocks, polished metal, retouched wallpaper, provided firewood...
While the French were cheering Jimmy Carter atong the Champs-Elysees :he other day, a quiet tragedy was occurring on the front lawn of the White House. One of the monarchs of the grounds was put to death section by section...
...halfway up the curving northwest driveway. On winter nights its 105-ft.-tall crown framed the floodlighted White House portico, its graceful branches seeming to cradle the mansion. In summer it rustled softly and spread soothing shade across the lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor...
...family of the first victim, Yolanda Washington, 20, called her high-living boyfriend a "bad dude" before her body was discovered near Forest Lawn cemetery in suburban Glendale, but police do not regard him as a suspect. Victim No. 5, Kathleen Robinson, 17, a frequent hitchhiker, was found beside a parkway in Los Angeles. The two youngest, Dollie Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, vanished a week before their bodies were found on a trash heap in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Neighbors of the latest victim, Lauren Rae Wagner, 18, a student at a local business college...