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Besides having the most complete horticultural and botanical collection in America, and doubling as a park and illicit picnic ground for Boston residents, the Arboretum has contributed to many "practical" projects. During the war its directors developed natural camouflage techniques and wrote a handbook for the Army on emergency food plants of the South Pacific...
...keep their mental attitudes healthy, National has free noontime movies for its workers, a cafeteria that serves up hot lunches at an average cost of 56? apiece. It maintains a 166-acre picnic ground near the Dayton plant, which has a swimming pool, softball diamonds, boating lagoon, archery, miniature golf, tennis and a "Tot Lot," with attendant, for the kids. If a National employee wants an auto, hunting or fishing license, National helps him get it. If he needs legal advice, National supplies it free. For a $1 fee, a National employee can sign up for night classes ranging from...
...Home. Nixon is a hard worker, never goes to the movies, rarely allows himself a weekend trip. Once, when he promised his two daughters (Patricia, 6, and Julie, 4) a picnic on a hot day, they wound up in his air-conditioned Senate office. Nixon just misses being handsome (he has fat cheeks and a duckbill nose), but he is what women call "nice-looking"; he gives an impression of earnest freshness...
They were taking a holiday. It was Ferragosto Day (Aug. 15), Italy's best loved and most ancient annual holiday,* and from the teeming Eternal City (pop. 1,600,000) a million Romans decamped to their seaside villas and to public picnic grounds in the Abruzzi Mountains or at war-famed Anzio Beach. Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel...
Rainbow's End. In Springfield, Ill., Mel Kampe won the big drawing at a local picnic, commented breathlessly: "Man! I never won anything in my life," wondered what to do with his twelve tons of stone...