Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clarence Smith bought Guy the horse, and it became, in the father's words, an "only brother" to Guy, and later the "common denominator" between Guy and Peggy. At 13, Guy would hurry off from Georgetown Day at 3 p.m. each day to ride in Rock Creek Park. With Navajo he entered horse shows and won ribbons. And it was through the pinto that, at 18, he met his bride-to-be, then only 14 years...
...Smith had frequently dated white girls in high school, but, say his parents, he had never been serious about any of them. Then, in Rock Creek Park, he met Peggy and began riding with her, she on a rented horse at first. Then she began riding Navajo as much as he, and won jumping prizes on Guy's horse...
...love for the pinto in part determined his decision to attend Washington's Georgetown University, just a ten-minute walk from the park stables. As a freshman, he expatiated on an assigned English essay subject: "Status Symbols." "Success is the true status symbol," he wrote. To Guy, Navajo was the highest symbol, and he owned...
...well at Georgetown, though not brilliantly, earning A's in his history major, B's and C's in most of his other subjects. One summer, when he was not cantering through the park with Peggy and Navajo, he worked as a counselor in a Southwest Washington playground, supervising Negro children. "And that's the kind of thing," says Principal Orr, "that Guy wants to do when he gets out of the service-something that involves him with people...
...bargain price. Around Los Angeles, not only the Irvine Ranch (TIME, Sept. 22) but also Valencia and Janss-Thousand Oaks are being transformed into cities by the families that once only farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres...