Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike. Interstate 86 and 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air conditioned theater tend to begin rather promptly at 2 p.m. or 8 p.m., and a quartet of singers offer madrigals on the lawn beforehand. There are hands free facilities for picnickers on the premises...
...public support for himself and the Ford Administration's foreign policy. In Atlanta, Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society, made him an honorary member and presented him with an old-fashioned editor's green eyeshade. The President held a genial news conference on the White House lawn, having harsh words only for the oil-exporting nations, who are contemplating another price increase this fall. Such an act would be "totally unacceptable," said Gerald Ford, but he did not say what the U.S. could do about it. Much of his week was spent entertaining a cross section of Americans...
...intense, Mrs. Gandhi is no spellbinder as a public speaker, but she nonetheless sways audiences. As Prime Minister, she has carried on her father's custom of holding frequent darshans-in Hindi, literally, "showing oneself-at which she appears on the lawn of her official home in New Delhi to accept petitions and listen to the problems of ordinary people. Like Father Jawaharlal, Mrs. Gandhi was educated in England. Like him also, she has little interest in small talk, suffers fools poorly, and governs imperiously-although she tends to delegate more business than he did. About the only time...
...succumb to the alluring film, Red Top quickly emerges as a highlight of the rowing experience. The 16-mile trek out to the lighthouse and back, a typical early-morning fare in the workout menu, is somehow slightly sweetened by the thoughts of an afternoon round of croquet, lawn bowling or broth following the early evening row. Red Top puts back the old-styled gentlemanliness into rowing...
...Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and his lovely Shahbanou (Imperial Consort), Empress Farah, arrived at the White House for a four-day state visit Thursday, they were greeted by silver-colored trumpets, red carpets and a 21-gun salute that boomed across the South Lawn. Gerald Ford, the seventh U.S. President that the Shah has met in his 34-year reign, greeted his Iranian guests with the kind of warmth normally reserved for close and deeply trusted friends. Outside the White House gates, several hundred Iranian students shouted "Down with the Shah" and brandished signs denouncing...