Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Reverend Johnson's Inauguration speech [Jan. 29]: at long last, a lay Pope...
TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a completely competent cast...
...gardens of Dedham. Mass., lay under eight inches of snow last week, and tillers of the soil in Lake Forest, 111., boarded their commuter trains in a below-zero blast off Lake Michigan. From South Carolina to Northern California, flowerbeds were bare, ruined choirs, strawberry patches frozen stiff as a Birds Eye package. But beside a million open fires and upturned thermostats roses bloomed, shrubs sprang into leaf, fruit trees and tomato vines burgeoned with succulence. It is Catalogue Time...
...wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon," said one awed spectator), and as he lay gasping in the dirt, the bull ran over his body. Miraculously, he escaped with nothing worse than bruises. Four days later he was back in action, and unlucky enough to draw another never-ridden bull-this time a mammoth Black Angus-Brahma cross. Wegner stuck it out the full...
...fair's financial problems was that 1964's paid attendance of 27 million was fully 13 million less than fair officials had predicted. Exaggerated reports of New York hotel-room shortages and racial disturbances during the summer discouraged some out-of-towners, but most of the fault lay with the fair itself. Many exhibits were still under construction when the fair opened. Prices for food, transportation and entertainment were often too high, a fact that served to increase the size of the mile-long lines in front of free exhibits. Moses' commandments decreed high rents, high maintenance...