Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HONEYBEES by Franklin Russell, illustrated by Colette Portal (Knopf; $3.95). A factual account of the twelve-month cycle of a honeybee colony. The best of the nonfiction, well told and with excellent illustrations...
Heckscher is encouraged by the involvement for communities in park planning. "People seem to have ideas about everything," he says, "very firm and often quite sophisticated ideas. Not to take them into account would invite the failure of any projected work. To create clear vistas stopped by identifiable objects; to shape places which are open and do not become overrun; to give to the public scene a legible character -- these are important to the maintenance of independent...
...years as first string guard, the chunky Bersin was one of the mainstays of the Crimson squad. His rough blocking helped account for Vic Gatto's outstanding season this year and Bob Leo's in 1966. Bersin was named last night to All-Ivy honors for this year...
Died. Joan Lowell, 64, author and perpetrator of one of the great hoaxes in U.S. letters; of a lung hemorrhage; in Sobradinho, Brazil. In 1929, she wrote an instant bestseller, The Cradle of the Deep, a purported autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...
...Delano (pronounced Delrryno), a grape-growing city of some 13,000 inhabitants, split by Highway 99 into a west side filled with lo-ball parlors, taco joints and strikers and an east side dominated by "Anglo" growers and indignation. As Author Dunne points out in this admirably dispassionate account of the yearlong strike, both camps were on the wrong side of history...