Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daily operation, the Times's four downtown-news sections are trucked in mat form or transmitted by computer-typesetter to the suburban edition's new $7 000,000 plant in Costa Mesa. There, Managing Editor Ted Weegar, former assistant managing editor of the metropolitan edition, tears the pages apart and remakes them as he sees fit. Orange County stories are scattered throughout the entire newspaper. National and world news can be replaced on page 1 and in the rest of the first section, but only if an Orange County story deserves the prominence. No attempt will be made...
Azaleas too pooped to pop? Fluffy ruffles lost their curl? Pollypoddies look like a tossed salad? Take heart. For every ailment, TV Horticulturist Thalassa Cruso has a remedy: "A highhanded plunge into a bathtub full of sudsy water will do wonders for your plant." If not, well, "then throw it out. You'll feel much happier replacing it with a fresher, sprightlier plant...
...relative of the onion called tritelia. It's really not worth the trouble of growing, but some people do, so I have to show it to you." She talks about cow dung as if it were French perfume, condemns tinfoil wrapping as "a crime against a blooming plant...
More often, though, mucking about in a little jungle of flora, she is like a den mother tending some mischievous tykes. "Oh, look at this one!" she exclaims, brushing aside the stalks of a daffodil "with its ears back like a startled cat." Turning to plants suffering from "the sickly miseries," she describes an ivy plant that has dropped its lower leaves as "a miniskirted fatshedera." Then, pausing beside a bed of bursting tulips, she sighs: "Bulbs can bring a private spring...
Despite bad weather, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets managed an average of 85 strikes a day against North Viet Nam, twice hitting a vital railroad-highway bridge and power plant in the port city of Haiphong. U.S. planes also kept up relentless pressure on the Communists surrounding the besieged U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, though 100 to 300 rounds of mortar and rocket fire continued to pour into the garrison each day. Last week the Marines...