Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Begonia Day, and Steve Canyon Day at the New York World's Fair-and also Art Buchwald Day, so proclaimed by Fair Boss Robert Moses because a) Buchwald was a busboy at the 1939 fair, b) Buchwald was the only reporter who showed up at a 1960 Moses press conference in Rome and well, anyway, Buchwald is syndicated in some 200 papers and who knows what could happen? What did happen is Art took along his father, Joe Buchwald, 71. "You think I want to go?" muttered Joe. "A man in the curtain business should lose money...
...seeks to cross makes them some of the loveliest spots on the globe-gorges, bays, broad rivers, mountain valleys, the approaches to towering cities. By necessity, bridges are the purest sort of expression of the architectural concept of form following function. A steel-arch bridge over a deep canyon cannot help completing the frame of a picture of classic beauty: rushing waters below, soaring steel above, and all framing the natural art of rock shaped by wind and water...
...transatlantic visitors is America's sheer size. French travel agents have learned to make a point of telling their clients that the U.S. is 171 times bigger than France, but still they are repeatedly disappointed to learn that a morning is not enough to visit the Grand Canyon from Denver or that a horseback ride across Arizona would be no fun at all. The insular English are forever making appointments for lunch in Boston to be followed by dinner in Phoenix and then wondering what all the rush is about...
...Goldwater have a seven-car accident with a gasoline truck that's been hit by a match wagon over the Grand Canyon. If he should survive, let the ambulance that's taking him to the hospital have four flat tires and run into a brick wall that's holding nuclear warheads and TNT. And if he should survive that, let him be thrown into a patch of wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla...
...takes travelers most briskly from Denver to Albuquerque, but at Raton, U.S. 64 offers a detour into Taos for a look at the Pueblo cliff homes, which were America's first apartment houses, then jogs on down the Rio Grande Canyon to Santa Fe. Colorado's Million-Dollar Highway, a 23-mile stretch along U.S. 550, skirts Mt. Wilson past plunging canyons, leaping waterfalls, and the reproachful nostalgia of abandoned mining camps...