Word: spaciousness
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Granite-faced Bear Bryant (he earned the nickname wrestling a bear at the age of eleven) reports for work each day promptly at 5:30 a.m., sometimes spends the night sacked out in his spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked...
...Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married in 1953, and on Hammersmith's spacious lawns that nearly a thousand townsmen, politicos and other out-of-towners swarmed for the reception...
...Free Hand. Moving into his spacious office in the grey, temple-fagaded Treasury building next door to the White House, Dillon called for every document since 1789 that provided a job description of the Secretary's portfolio, then set out to make the department his own. Unlike Secretary of State Rusk, Dillon did not have his top echelon of aides picked in advance by Kennedy. He took advantage of his free hand to build a Treasury staff that moneymen rate as possibly the best since the days of Alexander Hamilton. Dillon's right-hand...
Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family be happy in its new surroundings? The answer, as published last week in a report by Britain's Ministry of Housing: Not very...
...This town is a dump," says a 17-year-old in Stevenage. "Unless you like walking around looking at new buildings. There's certainly not much else to do." In the U.S., sociologists have found similar disenchantment among city dwellers who have moved from their crowded tenements into spacious public-housing developments or out to the new, mass-produced suburbs. Transplanted British families appreciate the advantages of their new homes when compared with their old quarters, but the ministry's report nevertheless concludes that the spacious garden city is not the answer for relocating refugees from the urban...