Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no question that the youths have captured Soweto-partly on their own, partly because their elders failed to lead. And the townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...
...Plains, Ga., last week. One group met as usual at the Plains Baptist Church, made famous in Jimmy Carter's presidential race, while a group that has forsaken Plains Baptist gathered at a little-used Lutheran church five miles out of town. After Sunday-school classes on the lawn and in the woods, 30 dissidents heard Sumter County Agent Tim Lawson, their chief organizer, announce that the Rev. Fred Collins of nearby Camilla had agreed to be pastor of the fledgling Bottsford Baptist Mission. Collins, 34, left Plains Baptist in frustration three years...
Haldeman, who lives quietly in Los Angeles, and has been seen lunching at Orange County's plush Balboa Yacht Club, also has huge legal bills. After the court's action last week, he called a press conference on his front lawn and said: "For the past three weeks I have been watching the Nixon-Frost interviews. I've avoided comment because I had the hope they would clear up many of the questions that remained. Unfortunately, they did not. I feel now that I have to challenge President Nixon's explanation of the cover...
...crab grass, dandelions and seed-snatching birds were not enough, America's lawn keepers face a new peril this spring: a small but growing band of "natural" landscapers who scorn the national fetish for meticulously manicured lawns and are letting their yards grow as wild and weedy as nature permits. One such heretic, Donald Hagar of New Berlin, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb, let plant life take its course when he moved into a house on 2½ acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature...
...country." Sun Shadow West residents had the Hagars hauled into court for violating a town law forbidding the presence of "noxious weeds," only to have a judge rule that the Hagars could let it all grow out. Local antiweed ordinances have also been struck down in other communities, giving lawn traditionalists a thorny problem...