Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner of a clothing store. Noelle escapes to Paris where, her first day there, she meets a dashing young American pilot named Larry Douglas. She falls in love with him and the two have an affair. There are the obligatory shots of the two young lovers romping in the park, gazing soulfully into each other's eyes and strolling hand in hand along the Seine to schmaltzy romantic music playing the background. But soon Douglas flies off, leaving Noelle with the promise of a reunion and marriage in three weeks time...
...National Park Service has taken steps to restrict automobiles from some park areas, and its Rangers have been cracking down on campers who insist on disturbing the parks' peace. To prevent further deterioration of the wilderness, some local park directors have banned snowmobiles, restricted boat traffic down certain rivers, begun issuing permits to hikers and climbers, and even closed trails for a year or two to give them a chance to recover...
...actions have triggered predictable protests. "A permit to hike!" snorted one angry Appalachian Mountain Clubber when told he needed to check with a Ranger before trying a favorite trail. "Next they'll tell me I need a license to breathe." But the action is essential. By 1979 the park service expects 302 million people to be visiting the National Parklands. Unless steps are taken now to preserve these wonderlands of nature, there may be a lot less of them for later visitors to enjoy...
...foreigners. Of the seven top attractions for visitors from abroad, six are National Parks: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mount McKinley, Redwood, Hawaii Volcanoes and Everglades. Third on the list and the only non-park is Niagara Falls...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...