Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM R. RITZ, '70 Pennsylvania State University University Park...
...Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered to hear King deliver his ringing "I have a dream" speech in 1963. A likely compromise may be West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial, a magnet for tourists...
Kirk also said tonight that he would yield to a request to discuss the Morningside Park gymnasium issue with the mayor. The mayor is said to favor an alternate site for the gym, which was scheduled to be built on a site leased to Columbia in 1961 for only $3000 a year. Construction has already been halted temporarily at the mayor's request...
They also say that Columbia is trying to "buy off" the city with its gymnasium plan. They argue that no private corporation has the right to take over park land...
...innovations--as Sack euphemistically prefers to call the gimmicks--can range from serious advancements in film exhibiting to mere trivia. After all, the Cheri is Sack's prize innovation: it is the only indoor movie complex in the country where you can park your car, step into an elevator, and arrive in the theatre's lobby. On the other hand, the much heralded ice cream parlor in the lobby is quite another matter. For 65 cents, you can make your own sundaes. So there you are. A Man for All Seasons finally reaches intermission. Quick, Harry, get into that line...