Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graceland before the funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother for reburial...
...softball field across from the South Lawn, the feisty White House shortstop argued noisily with the Washington Press Club runner after they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise...
...investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water seepage in the basement, watering the lawn when it reaches a given aridity, locking the front door at night -require the addition of various switches, sensors and motors that can send a house-proud hacker's outlay soaring. Says James Warren, a California microcomputer consultant: "You keep adding components until you exceed your yearly income...
...swooned, cried, keened and passed out from the heat outside the mansion gates. Two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After the funeral at Graceland, a cortege of 16 white Cadillacs led a slow procession down Elvis Presley Boulevard to the cemetery. There the lawn was banked with some 2,200 floral tributes - an imperial crown of golden mums, hortisculptured hound-dogs and guitars, sunflowers in wine bottles. Memphis ran out of flowers; reinforcements were sent in from California and Colorado...
...three visitors in the living room and left them with her husband. Minutes later, she and the chauffeur heard raised voices, then gunshots. They rushed into the room to find Ponto mortally wounded by five shots in his head and chest. Albrecht and her accomplices were fleeing across the lawn of the estate. Police theorized that they had planned to kidnap Ponto, and that he had resisted...