Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador Arthur Goldberg introduced an alternative resolution to the Soviet proposals that incorporated the five principles laid down by Johnson and added the suggestion that Arab-Israeli peace talks be assisted by a disinterested mediator. After Goldberg's formal motion, the General Assembly became a kind of Hyde Park Corner for every diplomatic soapboxer in town...
...passed the bill by 385 votes to 16, did they realize that the specific intent of the measure had somehow been overlooked in the patriotic talkfest. Though it had originally been framed as a response to the burning of a U.S. flag in Manhattan's Central Park last May, the bill as passed covered "publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon" the banner but did not in fact mention the act of flag flammation. That form of desecration will doubtless be reproscribed, with appropriate oratory, in the Senate...
...point could not have been better underscored than by the bevy of city workers who descended on the area in the quiet days that followed. Trash was collected, potholes in the streets were repaired, an access road was started to a small park several blocks away. Unfortunately for Dixie Hills, action had come too late...
...dissident and poor, New York has set out to spread much of the responsibility among its own conscientious citizens. Fifty-five businessmen have enlisted in Mayor John Lindsay's Citizens Summer Committee project, which is co-chaired by Metropolitan Museum of Art Director (and former City Parks Commissioner) Thomas Hoving and Time Inc. Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell. Some $500,000 in corporation cash has already poured in to pay for summer recreation programs. One project that got underway this month was the Clairol Caravan, a touring company that is bringing fashion shows, rock 'n' roll concerts...
There are twice as many tennis players in the U.S. (10 million) as there are people in Ecuador, (5,000,000), and the list of participants on a Sunday at the courts in Manhattan's Central Park is longer than the membership rolls (500) at all of Ecuador's five tennis clubs combined. But the U.S. Davis Cup team, which in eight years has managed to lose to Mexico, Italy (twice), Spain and Brazil, was not about to let statistics stand in the way. In Guayaquil last week, a four-man U.S. squad headed by Arthur Ashe-ranked...