Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine, obviously pleased with all this. "I never discuss anything else but." Had he made any commitments? None. But he had agreed to Ike's suggestion that Pennsylvania's 70 delegates and 70 alternates get together this week at the Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg, Pa. for a picnic. Who will give the party? "Eisenhower," said Fine firmly. But there wouldn't be any announcement then on how the Pennsylvania delegation stands. The delegates were going to meet with Senator Taft later. Fine didn't know just when he would commit himself, but the candidates would...
...Keep off the Grass" signs have not disappeared entirely, and people can still doze and dream in more than 17,000 U.S. city parks; but they can also play golf and tennis, eat a picnic lunch, ride a horse, paddle a canoe, attend a symphony concert and study the ways of animals and fishes. Tiny in comparison with the vast national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains, city parks are closer to the daily lives of the people they serve, and the best of them play a giant's role in an increasingly urbanized society...
...Orleans' sprawling City Park was once a sugar plantation. Now it combines the languorous beauty of the Cajun country with a football stadium, two 18-hole golf courses, an amusement area, picnic grounds, a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, dozens of tennis courts and an art museum...
...first time in twelve years. After a barbecue picnic on the lawn, Barkley, 74, beamed tirelessly for the photographers and said, "Well, John, if they didn't ask for more pictures, we would know we were slipping." Host Garner, 83, smiled again. Yukio Ozaki, 93, onetime mayor of Tokyo, who sent the cherry trees to Washington-as a good will gesture some 40 years ago, surprised his doctors by getting up from his "deathbed" to sit on his veranda and write a little poem in memory of the gift. The poem...
...theatre party, a formal dinner dance, and a beach picnic are planned for Cliffe's annual Senior-- Weekend, May 16, 17, and 18, according to Elizabeth T. Fast '52, class president and chairman for the affair...