Word: marigold
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Gretchen Spruance of Philadelphia, seeded number one, and Marigold Edwards, a former New Zealand champ and now second-ranked player in the United States, lead the tourney's 32 entries...
Even in this emotionally scorched earth, the younger girl is like a plant reaching up tenaciously toward the sun of knowledge. She has a relish for science, and her sympathetic science teacher has encouraged her to conduct the experiment of growing marigold seeds that have been subjected to gamma rays. When she is asked to deliver a small speech on the subject in her high school auditorium, the cauldron of the mother's repressions, frustrations, aborted love and accumulated venom boils over...
...personally kind and shamelessly sentimental. In his garden at Sterling, Va., he tended prize roses, poinsettias and camellias. Each year, in his most floriated prose, he beseeched the Senate to designate the marigold as the nation's official flower: "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon." He was one of the last national politicians who dared allow his eyes to mist when he spoke of the "fa-lag" and "coun-tray," and, in a way, the emotion...
...Kraslow and Loory illustrates one rule of executive decision-making: when an executive organization is not nourished by presidential concern it wilts. Harriman had neither the President's ear nor a security clearance which would have permitted him to do his job. Harriman did not even know of Marigold after it began to pan out. Johnson would have been protecting himself by keeping Harriman informed, but his central concern in December 1966 was not peace...
...STORY of the second set of bombings--December 13 and 14--make Johnson's attitude even clearer. On December 4 the Polish Foreign Minister delivered a clear warning that the bombings might hurt the Marigold initiative though he refused to guarantee that he was speaking at Hanoi's request. Johnson was now aware of both the bombing plans and the danger to the peace talks. He chose to go ahead with the bombing. Kraslow and Loory speculate Johnson had decided that by now Marigold had little chance of succeeding, and that if the North really wanted to talk, one little...