Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense to be spouted daily at Hyde Park Corner, but not in Blantyre to an unsophisticated audience of Africans...
...Puerto Rican. and led by a kid in a Dracula-like costume-nurse's cape, buckled shoes. He carried a knife. Another leader held an umbrella. With a splintering crash, one of the toughs smashed a Clinton boy with a bottle. Another shouted: "No gringos leave the park!" Wildly, the Clinton kids ran for an exit, but the gang caught up with most of them. Anthony Krzesinski, 16, fell wounded in the chest and groin. Bobby Young, 16, stabbed in the back, dropped to the ground. Five other boys staggered about, badly cut up. The gang fled...
Working a long engagement as "vice president in charge of fun" at Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park, sad-eyed Clown Emmett Kelly took a sad-eyed view of his profession. When they were still the greatest shows on earth, he moaned, big-time U.S. circuses had billets for something like 1,000 clowns, but the survivor, Ringling Bros., now uses only about 35. "The kids don't see any future in clowning," said Kelly, but he had a fourth ring up his tattered sleeve. "There is a new field that offers possibilities. That's the shopping...
...sweet smell of success wafted over Chicago's Comiskey Park. With just three weeks left to play, the go-go White Sox were still in first place, and Commissioner Ford Frick had flashed the sign to start preparing World Series tickets. Even the San Francisco Giants, leaders of the National League, were giving the White Sox a vote of confidence by sending a scout to look them over...
Hemingway-Oak Park High School, Oak Park...