Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military largesse that the U.S. has bestowed upon the Charleston area, his constituents generally believe that he has, and return him to Washington with metronomic regularity. Route 52 through Charleston is called Rivers Avenue, and a housing project at the city's naval base is named Menriv Park...
Satan-May-Care. As Rosemary Woodhouse, she and her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) are delighted to find an apartment in the Branford, a penumbral old fortress of an apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West, modeled on the real-life Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (where some of the exterior scenes were shot). Rosemary's bookish old father figure, Hutch (Maurice Evans), is not too pleased; the Branford, he notes, has an unsavory history of suicides and diabolical doings, including the murder of a notorious Satanist...
This week Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival begins its twelfth three-month season in Central Park, where the top price in the 2,300-seat Delacorte Theater is-nothing. Next month Papp-trained Mobile Theaters will be taking free productions of Hamlet, with an all-black cast, and a children's musical based on The Pied Piper to New York's slums. In a partially refurbished 117-year-old building that once housed the Astor Library, Papp is completing a successful first season of contemporary plays at the Public Theater, where tickets are only $2.50. This...
...Shakespeare uptown, expanding his company's scope with whatever funds he could beg from foundations and individuals. In 1962 the city chipped in $250,000 and George T. Delacorte Jr., chairman of the board of Dell Publishing, gave $150,000 to build the open-air theater in Central Park. Conversion of the Astor Library into the Public Theater will ultimately cost $3,000,000, of which Papp has raised only $1,000,000 so far. The annual budget of Papp's company...
Other causes for complaint include long lines at check-in counters and overcrowding in airport restaurants. Much the overcrowding is due to people who come to gawk rather than fly. Parents park children at airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...