Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole of the area just south of the Ton Son Nhut Airport being burned out segment after segment for four and five days running. When we left they were still bombing out sections of the Pho To around the race track. Read for that the area around Fenway Park and the density of the population around...
...green steel structure, zooms over part of the neighborhood, the Everett-Forest Hills Elevated zooms over another part. Every two or three minutes an MBTA train passes overhead and the whole neighborhood rattles and shakes. In the middle of the neighborhood is a dirty, unkempt, little, asphalt-paved park dedicated to the memory of a Congregational minister who settled there...
Such additional assistance was clearly justified in the face of mounting aggressiveness by the Communist North. No less important, it was also intended to soothe the fears and injured pride of Chung Hee Park's government...
Bellicose as Usual. To assuage Seoul's sensibilities, Troubleshooter Vance joined up with U.S. Ambassador William Porter for five days in South Korea, came away with a renewed declaration of amity between the two countries. Park's government was promised modern weapons. In return, South Korea consented to forget its concern for face and not oppose the bilateral Panmunjom talks, which the U.S. feels must remain secret to be effective...
...items intended for outdoor and public use emphasize how relatively rare and experimental are such attempts to beautify the cityscape. The instances include Cambridge Seven's Boston subway turnstiles and New York's $1,000,000 vest-pocket Paley Park (all necessarily shown in photographs only). Scholars of the 30th century may well conclude that, like the Greeks and Romans, urban Americans turned inward from their streets and sacrificed freely to the household gods, glorified their public squares and buildings, but left the ordinary thoroughfares to stray cats and garbage collectors...