Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forest rangers, highway patrolmen, Air Force and Yellowstone Park rescuers who poured into the area were appalled by what they found. Near where the Bennetts' camp had been, a huge slide of more than 7,500,000 tons of rock from the side of a 7,600-ft.-mountain had fallen into the canyon, sealing it from wall to wall for three-quarters of a mile and damming the Madison into a natural lake. Between the slide and Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night...
...York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily in the sluice of fire hydrants, which the cops thoughtfully turned...
...Long? The question of time preoccupies everyone. The stark fact is that what might have satisfied the African a few years ago no longer does. In Britain's Central African Federation, the old "Europeans Only" signs have faded from the park benches, but in the wake of all the mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw...
...tongue and threw his submarine ball, everyone knew that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that he had wet his pants...
...roosting at the U.S. courthouse and post office building, the bird man turned up last January. He spent a few hours on the courthouse roof, dangling what seemed to be a silver rope over the ledges and sills. Two days later there were new colonies of starlings in the park across the street, but not one on the premises of the courthouse. What's more, they have not returned...