Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will leave 95% of the ten-acre site still land scaped: below-ground-level stables for 370 horses topped by a three-acre orchard of flowering crab apple trees, and a sloping earth mound 400 ft. wide and 30 ft. high with an indoor riding ring beneath and an outdoor ring...
Then there is the shotput. Texas A. & M.'s Randy Matson holds the outdoor world record with a heave of 70 ft. 7¼ in., but the best he has ever done indoors is 64 ft. 4¼ in. One reason, says Randy, is that the shots themselves are different: both weigh 16 lbs., but the outdoor shot is plain metal while the indoor shot is covered with plastic so that it won't ruin the wooden floors...
...that he has the indoor record, Steinhauer has two goals left. First, to beat Matson's outdoor world record. Second, to paint landscapes. "Heck," he says. "I was an artist before I was a shotputter, and I'll be an artist after I'm a shotputter...
...Institute of Contemporary Art, the trouble with most city park officials is that "they don't know a damn thing about contemporary art. They go around buying safe, conservative Moores, Baskins and Calders. They don't realize there are plenty of lively new people working in outdoor materials and outdoor scales." In the interest of public enlightenment, Green has now set up a month-long outdoor show of 15 gigantic sculptures by ten relative unknowns in Philadelphia's public parks and plazas. Four were done by Tony Smith, 54, a New Jersey design instructor and architect...
Included were highly creative proposals to make New York City a state park district to facilitate outdoor recreation development, set up a program creating a county-agent-style welfare service to help deprived or undereducated city dwellers, increase middle-income housing construction, and float a $2 billion bond issue to improve New York's transportation systems-both transstate highways and the critical mass transit network in traffic-clogged New York City. Minnesota's Le Vander proposed a Metropolitan Service Council that would amalgamate the management of problems including everything from city sewage disposal to mass transit to parkland...