Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Braves, in an all-out public-relations effort, offered night baseball fans a dinner at Boston's staid Somerset Hotel, a seat at the game and cab rides to and from the ball park-all for $4.50. The corporation counsel for the District of Columbia said that it is legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard...
...party of fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten were happily assured a place they could call their own after their marriage in November. Father gave her a nice country home, Sunninghill Park, a vine-covered nest of 25 rooms, set in 300 acres near Windsor Castle...
...kept the traditions of their ancestors. They still use oxen to work their farms. Nearly half of them still speak Gaelic. A sign proclaiming "Cead Mile Failte" (a hundred thousand welcomes) greets visitors at Keltic Lodge, famed tourist spot near the entrance to Cape Breton's Highlands National Park...
Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...