Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagner was still cautiously, methodically planning his campaign (which he will open formally this week), Republican Jack Javits was off and running. On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jewish ritual forbade his riding in a car. He therefore set off on foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visit...
...last week promised Manhattan the biggest and glossiest project in the family's 150 years in New York real estate. Vincent Astor, 64, fifth-generation chief of the U.S. clan founded by John Jacob Astor, announced that he would build a block-square, 46-story office building at Park Avenue and 53rd Street, thus add to Manhattan's office space another million square feet, the air-conditioned, carpeted equivalent of 17 football fields...
Professor Millar Burrows of Yale will present a lecture entitled "The Dead Sea Scrolls" next Wednesday, October 3, at 8:15 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Morse Auditorium of the Science Museum in Science Park, Boston...
...most of his fellow citizens at home and millions of his fellow humans abroad. With an instinctive feeling for the latent resources of the U.S. and the world, he has raised the levels of education, gathered art for all to see, inspired millions with the natural beauty of national park sites, reconstructed the sights and sounds of history in projects such as Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the magnificent Stoa in Athens, Greece. He has given a home site to the United Nations, trained most of China's doctors, directed the efforts of American mission aries abroad, built Manhattan...
...running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would say, "and I wanted to have it opened...