Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexicans crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...
...City Hall, he quipped: "I didn't look any better then than I do now." Once, a farmer who had known him for years edged up, called out: "Hello, Billy. How the hell are you?" The P.M. grinned and said he was fine. At a picnic in Waterloo Park, a crowd of 4,000 passed before his canopied stand while a local functionary kept intoning: "If you've had a look, kindly move along and let someone else have a look...
...same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted that there had been fighting aboard the Runnymede Park. But debarkation from the Empire Rival, it reported, "was characterized by good spirits on the part of both the escort troops and the Jews. As they left the ship many Jews thanked the soldiers for 'hospitality...
...Robinson regarded it as sinful for twelve-year-old Jackie to be playing baseball at Brookside Park on Sundays while the pews at Preacher Scott's church were half empty. "The devil is sending the people to watch you play," said Mama, "and he's also sending you to play." Jackie won her over by taking her to a few games. She kept quiet until he began playing football, a game which disturbed both her religious and maternal instincts. One Saturday three Glendale High School players piled on Jackie and cracked two of his ribs. She still remembers...
...amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point who says he lives in Monterey Park, Calif, but actually lives out of a suitcase on the amateur golf circuit...