Word: kites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
High fliers and others welcome at the Graduate School of Design's annual Kite Flite on the Charles riverbank. Procession to river forms at 1 p.m. Saturday in Sever Quadrangle...
...planes as they crashed into walls, plunged beneath chairs or fluttered helplessly to the floor were eight judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...
...forth across his five New York boroughs with their 35,859 acres of parks and 11,000 employees backed by an annual capital budget of $28.2 million, Hoving has managed to announce free dog schools in Central Park (40 dogs and owners showed up opening day), officiate at a kite-flying contest, and make sure that there were 500 old car tires ready for the upcoming tire-rolling contest...
Moscow was also being horrid to "hooligans." Among the first victims of a tough new law against rowdy behavior were four tipplers who had arrived high as a kite at a soccer stadium during a match. They were fined on the spot, and their sentences were announced over the stadium loudspeaker. In another incident, a mine manager drew two months' "corrective labor" for hooliganism in a restaurant. In jail he got cooked meals only every other day, on alternate days only bread, salt and water. As if that was not indignity enough, his head was shaved...