Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threading the black Defense Department limousine through Washington's morning traffic, Chauffeur Clarence Mason wheeled smartly up to the Porter Street house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet...
...very day that he received an insistent personal request from President Eisenhower, asking about the fate of eleven U.S. airmen shot down over Soviet Armenia last September, Khrushchev got into his limousine and drove out to the $5,000,000 U.S. exhibition site in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. Accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., who had only an hour and a half's warning to be on hand, and trailed by a horde of Soviet and foreign journalists and an ever-growing crowd of curious workmen, Khrushchev ranged over the bulldozer-torn exhibition area, squeezing under...
Getting off the jammed main routes is no help, for the idea has occurred to everybody else too. The narrow back streets of cities are further narrowed by parked cars and blocked by garbage trucks and moving vans. In big cities the blitz was a traffic blessing, for bombed-out areas made excellent parking lots. But office blocks are going up on the bomb sites -bringing more cars into the center of town and simultaneously eliminating places for them to park. Creeping toward home from work in the rush hour, Londoners must often leave their cars a 20-minute walk...
...field recently waterlogged by spring rains, Britain's polo season got into full swing with Prince Philip leading the Windsor Park team to a 4-to-3½-goal victory over Ascot. Philip scored a goal, also took a tumble from his mount in the fray. Among the royal onlookers were Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece, and bonny Prince Charles, 10, a husky broth of a lad in zipper jacket and boots...
...shadow of the el," he says. "I was thrown out of school several times, and in junior high school I was voted the least likely to succeed. Mostly I was thrown out of school because I liked to cut class and turn over rocks in Van Cortlandt Park. The craziest things crawled...