Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York is not the one seen by the visitor, not Broadway or Park Avenue, not Greenwich Village or Harlem. Procaccino lives in a suburban setting so far north in The Bronx that the city boundary runs through his backyard. Marchi has a comfortable house in another outlying region, Staten Island. Lindsay is the Manhattan man. The differences are major. A man in the outer boroughs may work in Manhattan, but he is no more a Manhattanite by temperament than is a citizen of Omaha. Manhattan is heavily populated by the East Side affluents, by poor blacks and Puerto Ricans...
...pride in an orderly environment. They readily feel threatened by population shifts that change the makeup of their schools, road projects that cut up their neighborhoods, public housing projects that bring in welfare recipients. Like any citizens, they would like more and better amenities and services: a new school, park or playground, better transportation, sewage or public health facilities. But it is in Harlem that a large, new hospital just opened. It is programs aimed at helping blacks and Puerto Ricans that seem to monopolize the attention of public officials...
...warm Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, and the boys could hardly wait to try out their new toy rockets. Accompanied by a governess and a Secret Service man, John-John Kennedy, 8, and a playmate found an appropriate site in Central Park. While strollers stopped to stare, the boys successfully launched the plastic missiles, which, with the aid of a propellant of vinegar mixed with baking soda, rose about twelve feet into the air. John-John was so delighted by the performance that he blurted: "Now I have my own little Cape Kennedy...
...modern hospital for Iron County-have proved totally unmarketable. Probably a much greater total of bonds has not been scheduled for sale because local officials fear that they would find no buyers. Michigan voters, for example, last year approved two issues totaling $435 million to finance antipollution and park-building programs, but state authorities have never tried to set a date for investment-banking houses to bid on them. They have reason for their timidity. About half of the investment-banking houses that were buying state and city bonds a year ago, for resale to banks and rich individual investors...
...rock festival in Lincoln Park, hopefully featuring the Fugs...