Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elmwood Park...
...Hofheinz has a new spectacular: Astroworld. It opened last week, a 57-acre amusement park near Houston's Astrodome and still another of Hofheinz' ventures, a convention center called Astrohall. Yes, it rained on opening day. Such attractions as a simulated sleigh ride down the 65-ft.-high Der Hofheinzberg and most of the boats to carry visitors through a Lost World Adventure were not functioning. The next night, the Astrowheel-the world's first futuristic Ferris wheel-groaned to a halt, marooning 40 riders high above the action...
...days later, Athletic Director Adolph Samborski announced that current assistant coach Loyal K. Park would succeed retiring baseball coach Norm Shepard next spring. Shepard, who has coached three Eastern championships, had reached the compulsory retirement...
...Kennedy came over to Brooklyn a lot. I must have spoken to him four, maybe five times. He just would come to the park and walk around and talk to us--about school, our jobs, anything. I last saw him in late April. He seemed tired but we talked a bit. Mr. Kennedy was the only politician I knew. Those other guys--Nixon, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Humphrey--I don't know them from nothing. --a black youth from Bedford-Stuyvesant outside St. Patrick's Cathedral last week...
...spring, back at shortstop, Grate made the Greater Boston team and again won the Wendell Bat as Harvard won the Eastern title. There are persistent rumors that Major League scouts have been in contact with the Harvard switchhitter; he has good range and, says assistant coach Loyal Park, "an arm like a cannon...