Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Johnson was to fly to Honolulu for talks with South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, who has 52,000 troops in Viet Nam, and with top U.S. Pacific commanders. While the emphasis there is likely to be on the fighting, Johnson is well aware that his countrymen will be looking for some signs of progress on the diplomatic front...
...light and tumble journey from the East Side to the park...
...second rank only in recent years, as students have come to appreciate the Boom-Boom's husky, 150 per cent voice, the kind that anyone can imitate if he doesn't mind being hoarse the rest of the day. Cannon's best song, Palisades Park, is extra-auteur; he owes his place to the "whoooo" of Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Talla-hassie Lassie, and Transistor Sister...
...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...
This time Yaz refused to greet the interlopers, but, heeding the Riot Commission Report, rebuffed them only gently. It was too late. As the Park and City police and the dwindling crowd watched in disbelief, the lawlessness, the disregard for property which has convulsed the nation at large, came to Yawkey's Yard. Perhaps a hundred grade-schoolers, led by a spindly-legged eight-year-old girl, spilled onto the field from all directions and advanced on their general like a children's crusade. Yaz backed warily against the Wall, but the worshippers rolled on. Two groundskeepers were dispatched...