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1984Year IN 1905, the financier and sportsman John S. Phipps and his English-born wife, Margarita Grace Phipps, commissioned George A. Crawley to design an English-style country house with extensive gardens in the Long Island countryside. Completed in 1909, though continually modfied over the years, the estate in Old Westbury was a gathering place for the large Phipps family. This summer Old Westbury Gardens, as they are now known, mark the 25th anniversary of their opening as a public garden and arboretum. Mr. Crawley, an Englishman with a degree in history from Cambridge University, was not a formal architect
in fact, the Phipps mansion, built in the style of a Restoration manor house, was his only complete project. By designing the gardens as well, Mr. Crawley achieved a harmonious whole. The styles of the individual gardens in the 15 acres immediately surrounding the house constitute a kind of visual history of English gardens: from rose garden beds in quatrefoil formation and an Italianate walled garden with trees espaliered in the 17th-century manner to herbaceous borders and a cottage garden of the late 19th century. The contours of the 70-acre estate with lakes and ponds hark back to the 18th-century British landscapes of Capability Brown. AT OLD WESTBURY, GRACIOUS GARDENS
1956Year THE publication of Graham Greene's "The Quiet Ameri can" has fluttered dovecotes that had long been placid. There have been other political novels in recent months
in fact, the political novel may be enjoying a little renaissance; but "The Quiet American" flaunted its politics with a special flourish. In a Novel It's the Life, Not the Politics, That Counts
1949Year Truman explains cuts TRUMAN SUPPORTS DEFENSE ECONOMY
In Fact, the President Asserts, Order to Discharge 135,000 Was on His Instructions
1982Year WHEN Governor O'Neill called a press conference for last Monday afternoon, reporters looked forward to the event with special anticipation. It wasn't because there was a burning topic to discuss
in fact, the press conference had not been called for any particular reason. And it wasn't because this was to be an open, ask-whateveryou-want press conference, although this was Mr. O'Neill's first such event since taking office 14 months ago. The interest in seeing Mr. O'Neill step behind the lectern was the lectern itself. The Governor, while experienced in public speaking, has an aversion to crowds of microphones waving in his face. When broadcast reporters set microphones on his desk, he tries to push them back, to leave himself a few inches of clear space. The reporters, however, say they get better quality recordings by keeping the microphones close. Recently, therefore, the Governor asked that a new lectern be built, and on Monday, it was unveiled. CONNECTICUT JOURNAL
1993Year MORE than two years of fighting, destruction and suffering in the Balkans have been no deterrent to the staging of chess events there. The people of Yugoslavia and the republics that have seceded from it are fanatical chess players
in fact, the ratio of chess players to the population at large is the highest in the world. The latest chess event was the Yugoslav Team Championship, restricted to Serbia and Montenegro, the two remaining republics in the Yugoslav federation. The event took place in early June in Becici, Montenegro, where more than a thousand players participated on 150 teams. The winner was the Agrouniverzal team of Belgrade. Amid the Balkan War, The Game Goes On
2004Year Not all Web-based computer animations with political themes are games
in fact, the real games are very few. Ian Bogost maintains an archive of real games, interactive cartoons, and simple animations at http://www.watercoolergames.org/archives/cat_political_games.shtml A Guide to the Games