Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equipped to write, he remarked, was "The Naked and the Dead Go to Japan." But the mark of the great, or the would-be great, is that they can't do the same thing twice. Both of Mailer's next two novels, Barbary Shore and The Deer Park, struck out with the critics; the latter was rejected by seven publishers, and Mailer even considered printing it at his own expense...
Harvard baseball fans who marvelled at the fluid play of first baseman Bob Welz last year will get their first chance this year to see the Crimson junior on the diamond, this weekend -- at Fenway Park. The lure of money and a professional career pulled Welz away from the Crimson pinstripes into the Detroit organization. And the same bait, in bigger doses, will probably mean that Cambridge sports fans have only two more weeks to watch pitching sensation Ray Peters plying his trade in the college circuit...
...Democratic Party will likely cut into Park's rural support in this week's election, but not enough to offset the government's gains in the cities and along the eastern coast, where South Korea's prosperity is most evident. Overall, Park is expected to increase his 1963 margin...
South Korea's progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...
...parishioners still refer to Riverside as "Fosdick's church," and with some reason: it was built for him by John D. Rockefeller Jr. After Fosdick, charged with heresy, had resigned from Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church in 1925, Rockefeller offered him the pulpit of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of which he was a trustee. When Fosdick hesitated, Rockefeller asked him why. "Because I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," Fosdick said. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than...