Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current value of Manhattan Island-which has become the East Coast's answer to your own Monument Valley. Our unanimous judgment is that because of the enormous growth in building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern transportation system, distinguished architecture, wonderful park and recreation facilities and our nationally renowned credit standing, we could not possibly afford to sell Manhattan for $24." No, concluded Lindsay: "We won't take a nickel less than $80." The Rough Rockers reportedly think that is a bit much...
Secretary Hickel releases plans to divert the Mississippi River through Alaska and build a $500-million amusement park called "Tom Sawyer's Bargain Basement." Selective Service rejects David Eisenhower's claim that he is a Quaker by marriage, and dispatches young Eisenhower to South Vietnam...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Hippo!" shows a relocation project, now under way in South Africa's Kruger National Park, which is moving the hippopotamus population to an area safe from poachers...
...spring holds less flamboyant promises, as well. John Cheever has finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming...
...Killing Rounds. The match, held at the Oriental Park Race Track in Havana on a blistering hot April afternoon, was scheduled for a man-killing 45 rounds. It lasted 26, or one hour and 44 minutes, making it the longest heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight...