Word: lila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...services of six gardeners. After his death it began to decay. By 1966, when Monet's only surviving son-the reclusive Michel-died, the place had been closed to visitors, a shambles of rank growth and silted-up ponds. Recently, with a large grant from the U.S. collector Lila Acheson Wallace, the beds and ponds of Giverny were substantially restored; the work will take another two years to complete, but this fall the gardens will be opened to the public in something like their former exuberance...
From Tehran, Carter flew to India, where he was due to be welcomed by throngs of people at Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds, the same 19-acre field in which an estimated 1 million Indians waited for hours under a hot sun to greet Dwight Eisenhower in 1959. After spending the night at the red sandstone Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace. Carter on Monday was to begin a round of appearances that, says an aide, is designed to demonstrate U.S. support for a country that is trying to improve its lot "in the context of democratic institutions...
Worried pet owners aside, many Angelenos are beginning to agree. Taking up the coyotes' cause, Hollywood Conservationist Lila Brooks almost single-handed led a successful campaign to get the city to begin construction of as many as a dozen watering holes for coyotes and other wild animals around town. "The coyote is not in our backyard," she says. "We are in his backyard." Some Angelenos are raising coyote pups as pets; one woman sets out 5 lbs. of chicken backs every day to feed the animals. Says June Gador, a writer in coyote-infested Hollywood Hills: "We figure...
...second most active member is Harold G. Evans, 42, a Postal Service clerk, who was elected deputy foreman by fellow members. Pregelj and Evans have asked about half of the questions posed by the jury. Others who have been active interlocutors include Lila Bard, 65, a retired Army officer; Enas Broadway, 62, an employee in the National Library of Medicine; George W. Stockton Sr., 55, a Defense Department supply technician; and Naomi R. Williams, 58, a retired teacher and elevator operator...
Also: Martha D. McDaniel of Lowell House and Newton; Anne D. Montgomery of Dunster House and Greenville, S.C.; Susan M. Praeder of Eliot House and San Mateo, Calif.; Lila M. Richardson of Quincy House and New York City...