Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a dusting of dirty snow in New York City's Flushing Meadow Park, some weird and wonderful construction is going on. More than 30 pavilions for the 1964-65 World's Fair are currently abuilding, and President Robert Moses has told the fair's board of directors that ground will be broken for 75 more within a couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some...
ROBERT PINZLER East Meadow...
...sparkling meadow at the edge of Kenya's Elburgon Forest, a husky African district officer named Eliud Mahihu asked one of the 200 assembled Kikuyu tribesmen to close his eyes, then led him through the crowd with a broom handle. "He is like a blind man because he has shut his eyes," shouted Mahihu. "If you have taken an oath with the Land Freedom Army, you have shut your eyes too!" By sundown, 130 men and women had stepped forward to renounce their membership in the shadowy army. Suspected members who held back faced arrest and imprisonment...
...acre site in Flushing Meadow looked less like a showcase last week than a sordid battlefield of machinery and men. And inside the administration building, the generalissimo of it all. Fair President Robert Moses, kept things moving like the centurion in the Gospels, who described himself as a man who says "Go. and he goeth; and to another. Come, and he cometh...
...source of the Nile in Lake Victoria, which, next to Lake Superior, is the world's largest freshwater lake. On its western borders rise the famed Mountains of the Moon; on the east, the towering 14,178-ft. Mount Elgon. In between stretch 500 miles of open meadow and sparse forest filled with elephants, gazelles, elands, lions and leopards. Typically, Uganda is also unstable, since its 6,845,000 people are riven by tribal, religious, economic and linguistic differences. There are no fewer than four separate Bantu kingdoms on the shores of Lake Victoria, which henceforth must...