Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amin received the press on the beautifully clipped green lawn of State House in Entebbe. He spoke softly and slowly, sometimes gesturing with the immense hands that once made him Uganda's heavyweight boxing champion. (He is 6 ft. 3 in. tall and weighs about 260 lbs.) "What I am doing," Amin insisted, "is what the people of Uganda want. Nobody today controls Uganda but Ugandans." The country was temporarily closed to tourism, said Big Daddy, until he could train his people in how to behave toward foreigners. "In future, Uganda will be one of the friendliest nations...
...STOUGHTON keeps colliding with Presidents, camera firmly in his grip. He did the picture of John Kennedy on Inaugural Day of 1961, waving to the crew of PT-109 on the parade float. It was his picture of Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year...
...follow, with Sasounian sowing sample teeth and producing angry instant hoplites, to the delight or dismay of the likes of Stalin and Beria, Ben-Gurion, Nasser, SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther in Paris, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who watches the demonstration on a quiet corner of the White House lawn...
...improving relations between the U.S. and China. He held his first press conference in four months and denounced his old tormentors as "the so-called better people." He joined in public prayer with Billy Graham at the Washington Hilton, greeted British Prime Minister Edward Heath on the White House lawn and presided over a mass swearing in of his Cabinet...
Then there are the environmental burdens. Every day, the authors estimate, America's dogs alone produce 3,500 tons of sidewalk-and lawn-fouling feces and 9.5 million gallons of urine. When the animals die, say the authors, "tons of dead animals are buried in city dumps, incinerated, or sent to rendering plants to be cooked, ground and used in fertilizer or cattle feed"1-all at some large cost to society...