Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adapter William Nichols conceived of the TV version as fantasy-all a dream of Feste the clown-set in the rococo grandeur of an 18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed...
Obstacle Course. In Madison, Wis., Bernard Crompton, nabbed for drunkenness after trotting around Capitol Park in his shorts, explained that he was trying to run the four-minute mile but didn't make it because he kept "getting stopped by policemen...
...from Lewisham to Hammersmith, scarcely a car moved. Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...
...Mohammed V, eager to see all he could of the U.S. in 16 days, almost had reason to regret his wanderlust, so rapidly was he whisked hither and yon. At Disneyland, the King successfully took the throttle of the locomotive that draws a miniature 1890-style train around the park. While in Texas, Mohammed decided to summon his four daughters-Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped on to San Francisco for two days...
...mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest to Chicago round-trip commuters pay only...