Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's concern needed any documentation, the FBI reported last week that in 1965 the number of murders in the U.S. rose by 6% over the year before, forcible rape by 7%, robbery by 5% and aggravated assault by 3%. Crime of all types increased by 8% in U.S. suburbs. Perhaps the most revealing figure came from William F. Owens, an American Bankers Association insurance expert, who estimated that 850 bank holdups were staged last year v. 609 in 1932, the heisty heyday of the John Dillinger breed of gunman. Most bank jobs today, said Owens, are pulled...
After the war, Ceausescu rose rapidly toward the top, though he remained aloof from the Pauker group in the process. By 1955, at the precocious age of 37, he was a full-fledged Politburo member, two years later took charge of party organization and cadres-which made him second only to Dej in power and influence. The stocky figure with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince...
...orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver near the stem, and a bright new floribunda, Apricot Nectar...
...with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and Burpee begin years in advance to cross-fertilize flowers to achieve the blend of color, size and hardiness to captivate this spring's buyer. To produce a new hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings seem worth cultivating. The Mexicana rose cost $50,000, not an extravagant expenditure if only 1% of the nation's 35 million rose growers...
...antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose roots grow straight down, to all practical purposes, the foil foils them...