Word: pond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a quick inspection of his duck pond (pop. 37 mallards, three wooden ducks), Ike summoned a strange-looking vehicle that looked like a cross between a jeep and a surrey. Over its open top was a fringed canopy; the words "Ike" and "Mamie" were painted on the front fenders. The car, a little Crosley, was presented to Ike a year ago by an anonymous friend for use as a golf buggy. But it proved too big for golf, on a field test at Burning Tree, and was retired to the farm. Ike climbed aboard, was driven to another barn...
Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...
...With that as a base, he diversified into gas and oil, went on to take over companies making cables, power shovels, and cranes (Industrial Brownhoist Corp.). With cash from his growing empire (now called Penn-Texas Corp.), he recently bought 80,000 shares of machine tool maker Niles-Bement-Pond, whose stock was selling a few points below the $25 per-share value of its working capital. Silberstein eventually got 51% control and forcibly installed himself as president...
...Largest: the Ikenobo (Priest's Pond) school, founded in 1525 A.D., with 4,000,000 followers...
...year-old former New York City schoolteacher had been drifting aimlessly since his retirement 18 months ago. Then one day at the institute, "I looked out and saw the frozen pond. I realized what I had been blind to, and I wanted to paint what I saw there, to preserve it." Now an ardent painter, the ex-teacher has also been working on an invention to simplify the building of small houses. Says he of the institute: "It has opened whole vistas for me. Almost too many, in fact...