Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucratic snafu disrupted the Quincy House Committee's plan to use the lawn last Saturday afternoon...
...from office makes his first extensive accounting of his tumultuous presidency. He does so not in a court of law, as did his highest aides. Nor at a Senate impeachment trial?he resigned to avoid that. Instead, nearly three years after a helicopter lifted him off the White House lawn and into seclusion at his San Clemente retreat, he appears in a four-part TV series, The Nixon Interviews. One obvious reason: he will get $600,000 and a share of the show's worldwide profits. Another reason: his hope that he can change the people's perception...
...will be directing our energy program is the father of eight children. The idea that none of them are permitted to "waste time" by mowing their own lawn is an affront to the rest of us who are wasting time in an attempt to conserve energy by walking to work, pushing lawnmowers and hanging laundry...
...much compared with the digs next door, but Amy Carter calls her new tree house home. Situated in a secluded thicket on the south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by shinnying up a sturdy old Atlas cedar. Amy introduced her 20-month-old nephew Jason, son of Jack and Judy Carter, to her leafy perch last week, and even her dad, says the First Child, "climbed up here once." The architect of the project is the President, who remembers well his own childhood tree...
...Sportscaster Phyllis George, once a North Texas State cheerleader and Miss America of 1971. Although the thrice-married (most recently to AM MacGraw) Evans had firmly declared that "three times to bat is quite enough," Bob, 46, and Phyllis, 27, were married last week on the lawn of his Beverly Hills mansion. In a specially composed ceremony the minister sang: "Together you step from the darkness/ The sun is beginning to rise/ You are living the questions together now/ Finding answers in each other's eyes." At the conclusion, he pronounced the pair "two travelers in exploration, two hearts...