Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bartenders at Rome's Eden Hotel, near the walls of Villa Borghese Park, have an unusual customer. He drinks little, but stays around for long, amiable conversations with them. He seems lonely and a little forlorn. One night recently he reached across the bar and poured his own drink. "I never had a chance to pick up a bottle for myself before," he explained. He is Constantine II, King of the Hellenes-restless and a bit bored by his extended exile from Greece...
...White House, flew on to Florida, Texas and California, to Wisconsin's Scandinavian dairylands, to Chicago, and finally to Manhattan. There, he lunched with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors Island before catching a jet back to Oslo...
...rights for construction; the idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story Pan Am Building, which was built five years ago with an 80-year...
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15 -- West Potomac Park, where they set up "Resurrection City USA," is right next to the Reflecting Pool, which stretches between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The Reflecting Pool is very deceptive. It looks calm and deep and beautiful. But actually it is only two feet deep. Three or four times a year, maintenance men from the U.S. Park Service drain the pool and pick up the garbage on the bottom. Then you can see that it is only two feet deep. And that is very disappointing...
...International Friendship League, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...