Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never met until that evening. Said Marion: "I wanted to have some fun before I die, and this seemed like a good excuse to do it." The party was set mainly in a canopied patio where tables groaned with quartered chickens, beef tenderloins, caviar and champagne. The fish pond was lined with rosebushes hung with gardenias. The bar, long enough to accommodate 150 people, was manned by seven bartenders; 17 violinists, with the help of two regular-size orchestras, supplied the music. Among the all-star list of well-behaved, moderate-drinking guests: the Jack Bennys, the Gary Coopers...
...shop, stocked it with guns ranging from $75 to more than $2,000. Other items: shooting gloves, alpaca-lined pants and red underwear. Next year, with an eye on the 650,000 hunting and fishing licenses issued in & around the Chicago area, Hunter hopes to add a pond to the farm, sell fishing practice and equipment as well...
Commuters recently formed several committees, whose chairmen are: Dorothy Johnstone '54 and Joyce Mann '53, community service; Helene Burke '54, Agassiz; Jeannette Beatty '53 and Elizabeth Pond '53, dormitory-commuter; Arlene Kupis '54 and Gisela Marten '54, faculty affiliate; and Barbara Keane '53 and Audrey McKenna '55, a social chairmen...
...Lotus' observations convinced him of a second point. He did not hear the faint, soft pop of opening petals that has echoed for centuries through Japanese literature. Some years ago on a summer morning, the skeptical scientist dragged recording equipment to the shore of a lotus pond. There he assured himself that the modern flower blooms in silent beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even...
...soldiers and Volkspolizei rounded up a locomotive, its driver and 40 West German laborers on the British side of the border near Helmstedt and locked them up in a train shed, on the grounds that they were trespassing on Soviet territory. Three bewildered anglers fishing in a border pond were also caught in the net. Major Colin Ball of the British Frontier Inspection Service drove up briskly and demanded their release. "This is the British zone," he said. "No," answered the Russian officer who had stepped out of the woods to meet him. "Look at your map," said Ball...