Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown; Sullivan 17:37 (course record at Boston's Franklin Park), Linsley...
...Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and a possible future king. One among several Arab potentates who have been eying the U.S. real estate market lately, he wanted to have a Manhattan pied-a-terre. Saud's choice was a twelve-room, $600,000 coop apartment on Park Avenue owned by Bruce A. Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings. Alas, it was not to be. After months of meetings, the other tenants decided not to accept Saud as a co-owner-because of their fear of possible political violence if he moved in. Said...
Spark-Plug Center. North Carolina's Research Triangle Park has not only survived but has become the largest such complex in the country. It is set in the geographic triangle formed by Duke University (seven miles away), the University of North Carolina (twelve miles) and North Carolina State (15 miles). Twenty-five Government, corporate and nonprofit research organizations are located in the park's 5,400 acres of rolling, pine-covered hills. Over 60 buildings, some of them dramatic, futuristic structures like the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters, are widely separated in the woods-with plenty of room to stretch...
...moment, the park is dominated by biomedical, computer and chemical research. The Environmental Protection Agency's air-pollution study center, which investigates such things as the reaction of blood cells to gases, is in the park. The Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology is developing new methods for testing the safety of drugs and chemicals. Monsanto is testing synthetic fibers and nonwoven fabrics, while IBM-the biggest employer, with 3,500 workers-is checking out new computer systems and programs...
...Research Triangle is hoping to attract other kinds of tenants as well. One, the newly formed National Humanities Center, has already broken ground at the park. Funded by private foundations and corporations, the center aims to encourage interdisciplinary research in such fields as history, religion, philosophy, sociology and the arts. It will finance nine months of carefree study for 25 to 50 scholars at a time. Eventually the center would like to enhance the influence of the humanities in the same way that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study boosted the reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such...