Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Florence's stately Parco delle Cascine (Park of the Farmsteads) is full of quiet, ponderous chestnut trees and brooding live oaKs beneath which the members of the city's best society used to walk on Sunday afternoons, exchanging courtly salutes and smiling at one another's poodles. With their customary sense of historic irony, Italy's Communists last week chose this park for the biggest, gaudiest clambake that Dante's city had seen in many a year...
...last day, a Sunday, 500,000 merrymakers spilled into the park by the Arno. The big day started with a six-hour Communist parade which passed under a 45-ft. triumphal arch of green branches, topped by a "Unità" neon sign. Paraders chanted new political jingles. Examples...
...negotiating the Franklin Park jungle, Schoeffler consumed only 22.40 minutes, better than par for the course...
When the U. S. group arrived in Budapest on Aug. 14, it found the Hungarian government had turned over large areas of its capital city to the festival. Buses had been commandeered for transportation. The best restaurants in town were used to feed the delegates. The Amusement Park on Margaret Island in the Danube was carmarked for use by Festival people. So were the city's enormous public baths...
...meeting was held in a park, and to "preserve security," the speaker asked for "last initials only" and shooed away passers-by. The speaker stated, according to Warshaw's notes, that the "rumors are being spread to defame the present regime ... to disrupt the delegation." He went on to say that a girl within the group had admitted the night before that she was guilty of spreading rumors...