Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine-over the fate...
...Bullet Park, Cheever...
...shot. In South Korea, a mere 3,500 men in an army of 600,000 put General Park Chung Hee in power. Luttwak's little classic explains how so few can fool so many. By revealing the necessary delicacy of timing-a single miscalculation of hours or minutes can send the plotters to their execution-he also shows how easy it is to prevent a coup. In his appendices Luttwak offers other advice for despots eager to cling to their posts. It resembles that given by one of the tyrants of ancient Greece. Asked how it was that...
Across the street from the White House, the Nixons have permitted, though they did not officially sponsor, what may well be the sprightliest exhibition of contemporary art in town. There, a plain gray plywood fence had been built around Lafayette Park while construction work is going on. Depressed by the sight, Jane Shay, a staffer at the nearby National Trust for Historic Preservation, organized a one-day paint-in by a group of Washington high school art students. The result was a half-mile mural in which green trees, pink pigs, pilgrims, bare-breasted Indian maidens and parades mingle with...
Similar Peaks. To make this delicate distinction, Weber set up identical instruments at his headquarters in Col lege Park, Md., and at the Argonne National Laboratory, outside Chicago, nearly 700 miles away. As expected, the wave patterns traced out were at first random and dissimilar because the readings were being taken so far apart...