Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flags on the Ellipse behind the White House, where Boy Scouts and others will set out American flags. The request was, of course, denied, but an attempt by antiwar groups to do anything similar could produce trouble. Ambassadors from the Woodstock nation promise a huge pot party on the Mall for the Fourth, threatening to appear with red, white and blue marijuana joints. Some will doubtless wear flag shirts and bell bottoms, the paraphernalia of their wholly different patriotism. Not everyone will appreciate the distinction...
...different size, shape, and material, tailored for the justice who hits in it. President Nixon has found it impossible to fill the ninth chair on the Court, impossible to nominate a candidate acceptable to the Senate, which glares at the Court from across a tree shaded mall. His latest nominee for the Court, however, has passed easily through the Senate Judiciary Committee, and will probably get the approval of the whole Senate this week. Nixon has finally found a man with no skeletons in his closet...
Washington's Park Police, however, recently have grown almost neurotically literalminded about kites ever since an underground newspaper asked for a permit to stage a kiteflying contest. The Smithsonian Institution was then denied a permit to hold its annual kiteflying carnival on the spacious Mall between the Capitol and Washington Monument. Then when a local lawyer named Frederic Schwartz Jr. filed suit for kite privileges, the Park Police really cracked down. They arrested four kitefliers one weekend and eleven the next, using horses and motor scooters to enforce law and order on the grass. One sergeant leading a miscreant...
Linked with it was a participation program for Pittsburgh's schools, whose students made hundreds of what Piene calls "wind things"-inflatables, banners, kites. Then they were all flown over the East Liberty Mall. "It was so joyous," said Piene happily...
...jittery New York. Three Molotov cocktails exploded in a Manhattan high school. There were scattered bomb threats elsewhere in the country, even at the Justice Department in Washington. One of them obliged Secretary of State William Rogers to leave his office. Mysterious nighttime explosions rocked a Pittsburgh shopping mall and a Washington nightclub. Another blast hit the Michigan State University's School of Police Administration, and someone threw a Molotov cocktail in an Appleton, Wis., high school...