Word: rockhound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lumberman Livermore unwinds on ski and pack trips in the Sierras each year, and, like him, the best-relaxed men turn to noncompetitive activities -fishing, swimming, horseback riding, birdwatching. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield is a spare-time rockhound (amateur geologist). Delta Air Lines President C. E. Woolman raises $100-a-plant pedigreed orchids. World Publishing Co. President Benjamin D. Zevin finds lawn-mowing relaxing because "I know there's a hired man to do it if I don't want...
...Millionaire James Lewis Kraft, 77-year-old founder of Kraft Foods, and an ardent lapidary in his spare time. Cheesemaker Kraft began collecting rare natural stones one day in the '20s when he was out driving and saw some people scrambling up a mountain. Told that they were "rockhounds" hunting for rarities, he joined the group, has been a rockhound ever since...
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