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...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...
Sunday's water ski show had all the ingredients for a pus estival festival: there was soda (no beer), sun shades provided by WBZ), shorts, a skier on a kite, clasping lovers and hugging mothers...
...most minute, are national matters. Action by both houses of Congress is required to set District teachers' salaries and to establish dog license fees. During the Kennedy Administration, with the civil rights and tax cut bills pending, Congress had to take time off to repeal laws forbidding kite-flying and icecream cones Washington...
...Flight of the Phoenix crashes a shuddery old two-engine transport into the Sahara, follows its crew's effort to construct from the wreckage a spit-and-bailing-wire one-engine plane to escape in, and reaches a peak of excitement when this kite struggles to take off with five men sprawled on its wings. Measured against the ordinary run of adventure epics, Phoenix is a bonanza...