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...mother Nancy in Beverly Hills, Frank Jr. quietly attended local public and private schools, still plans to continue drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That was almost like the Paramount Theater...
...Santa Ana Freeway, on which cars whoosh past such Southern California institutions as Disneyland and San Juan Capistrano on the way from Los Angeles to San Diego, was blotched by fog. As state cops later reconstructed it, a woman driver pulled part way off the freeway with a flat tire-setting off a chain reaction that piled car upon car for five miles. The toll: one dead (a nun riding in a car about a mile back from the first crash), two critically injured. 24 in the hospital, 25 others slightly injured. 20 cars demolished. 40 cars disabled...
...Macdonald believes, is spreading like a "tepid ooze" through American culture. It showed up in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, in which the vivid language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter...
Elsewhere on the grounds are a tree house, a jungle gym, barrels, sandbox, swings and a playhouse-a veritable Disneyland for the Kennedy children and their lucky friends. As a menagerie, the White House rivals the Washington...
...nation's largest restaurant operation, grossing $5,000,000 annually. At the Equitable Life Assurance headquarters, Stouffer's serves 6,000 lunches daily, a record for employee feeding. It also runs restaurants at the new Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and at Disneyland...