Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hefty version of a Continental breakfast. Then he moves to his study, where he dictates to his secretary for three to four hours. Weather permitting, he walks, at 11 each morning, around his property, occasionally carrying bread crumbs for his birds and chickens. He inspects his delicately manicured lawn and the garden, one segment of which forms a floral fleur-de-lis, the symbol of French royalty. After 40 minutes, the general is back at his desk in his book-lined study. As he edits manuscripts, he extends his right index finger along the contoured body of the fountain...
...public thinks that tennis is rich people out on their lawns going pitter-pat, pitter-pat," says former U.S. Women's Champion Billie Jean King. "As a result, the only ones who watch tennis are those who participate in the sport." Billie Jean has a point. Apart from the most important matches, tennis ranks slightly above barrel jumping and kite flying as a spectator sport. The fault is not with the game but with its hidebound governing bodies. Continually bogged down in petty disputes, they have been more concerned with self-preservation than promotion. Last week Alastair Martin, president...
Martin also leveled an attack on the "unrealistic control of American tennis" that is exercised by the International Lawn Tennis Federation. Noting that "different nations have different philosophies," he said that at the I.L.T.F.'s meeting in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on July 8, he will introduce an amendment that would allow each national association "to establish for itself rules of play, categories of players, and rules for the conduct, promotion and scheduling of tournaments...
...many members of the business community believe this can be solved by a tree planting ceremony on the front lawn." Lufkin said. "I don't thinkindustry is moving as fast as it should. It has in general looked at ways to postpone action," he added...
...week inspecting West German troops training with U.S. forces in Texas. Tanned by the Texas sun and rested after 2½ days in the seclusion of Camp David, Brandt alighted from a blue Mercedes with his attractive Norwegian wife Rut, to be greeted on the White House lawn by President Nixon. Cannons boomed out a 16-gun salute, and the red-jacketed Marine band struck up the traditional Deutschlandlied. The Brandts were also feted at a gala White House dinner and entertained by the redoubtable Pearl Bailey. To the tune of Hello, Dolly, Miss Bailey belted out "Hello, Richard...