Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forecourt of Buckingham Palace, the stiff and stately changing of the guard began with the band playing Happy Birthday to You and Teddy Bears' Picnic. As far as the palace was concerned, it was Prince Charles's day; there were no other engagements for papa & mama. After lunch, one of the royal Daimlers took him for a 20-minute visit to his great-grandmother Queen Mary, confined to Marlborough House with a cold, then back to the palace and the big moment: blowing the candles and cutting cake for a dozen young friends. Along with the cakes were...
Even blue jeans are on the wane, giving place to tidy Bermuda shorts of grey flannel and various tartans, with Black Watch and Buchanan the reigning favorites. Jeans will never really die, since there is nothing to replace them for the ruggeder sort of picnic and such essentially untidy jobs as housecleaning, but girls are beginning to realize at last that there's little point in pretending...
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...
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...