Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suffolk Downs take the MBTA to Park Street, transfer to Government Center, and take the Airport line to the track. Post time for the first race...
...Graduate Student Mixer, Radcliffe Graduate Center. Music by the Ken Reeves Orchestra and by the Central Park Zoo and free refreshments. Admission: $1 plus proof of graduate student status...
Just hop on the MTA to Park Street, transfer to Government Center, and take the Airport line to Suffolk Downs, Admission is $1.50 and hotdogs are 40 cents. Post time for the first race...
Some men bid for immortality with a simple statue or park bench that bears their name, or by endowing a university chair or a foundation. Not George T. Delacorte. The 76-year-old founder of the Dell Publishing Co. seeks to perpetuate his memory in a more spectacular way: through a series of monuments, each splashier than the last. The splashiest to date is the Delacorte Geyser at the tip of Manhattan's Welfare Island, which was tested last week for the first time...
Some might disagree. Delacorte's Alice in Wonderland statue, built as a tribute to his late wife in 1959, is so popular a children's roosting spot in Central Park that it requires some $10,000 per year for maintenance. The Delacorte Theater, completed with the aid of $150,000 from the philanthropist, is the site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes...