Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not solve the parking problem in embassy neighborhoods, however, because many members of the diplomatic community will keep their treasured immunity from parking regulations. Thus they can continue to double-park their cars, leave them in no-parking zones, ignore parking meters -and then tear up their parking tickets. This is no small privilege. In Washington it amounts to roughly 50,000 tickets a year, worth $300,000 in uncollectible fines. In New York City the total is truly staggering: 179,000 tickets in one year, worth...
...seats. There are no chicanos on the Los Angeles city council or the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. The sole California Mexican-American representative in Congress is Los Angeles Democrat Roybal. (Roybal has admitted that he "probably" pocketed a $1,000 payment from South Korean Wheeler-Dealer Tongsun Park. The House ethics committee has officially censured Roybal for that involvement...
...then there are the festivals, especially Puerto Rican Day in June, when some 250,000 members of the community parade up Fifth Avenue and turn Central Park into a joyous 840-acre cookout. It is then that Puerto Rican exuberance blossoms. Hotels and nightclubs rock to the three-two rhythms of salsa. Hot dog vendors watch forlornly as their all-American offerings are spurned in favor of bacalaitos (codfish fritters), alcapurrias (plantain-meat rolls) and tostones (fried plantains). The community comes ablaze - forgetting for a while the gritty realities of its plight...
...dedication will begin in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Park outside the Kennedy School at 10:45 on Saturday morning. Dukakis and O'Neill will make opening remarks...
...Cross Country vs. Cornell, Franklin Park, 12 noon. The 5-1 Crimson harriers are off again after a week's rest since last Saturday's 17-44 win over Brown...