Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winding forest road to find deep enjoyment and escape from urban pressures in simple camping, hiking and horseback riding away from the asphalt wastelands of Southern California. You would "improve" this Shangri-la by callously jamming 81/2 miles of superhighway through a wild section of Sequoia National Park, set aside for posterity in 1890, Then you would transform the tiny mountain valley into a parking lot and Disneyland extravaganza for crowd-loving socialites. This is a great cure for Mineral King's special quiet charm, which had until now miraculously escaped being ruined by "developers...
...stop is Bonn. The Germans will be delighted to see Nixon because of all the Western Europeans, they feel most dependent on U.S. military might. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger will meet the President at Wahn airport and take him by helicopter to his modernistic bungalow in the Palais Schaumburg park to begin their private talks unter vier Augen (among four eyes). From Bonn, Nixon will make the ritual visit to West Berlin, where John Kennedy made his historic "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech from the city hall steps in the spring of 1963. It will be a difficult...
...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. In this sprightly first novel, a witty but deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer and master painter tells of the ludicrous events that made him a forger and murderer anxious to meet and kill...
...other extreme stands Norman Mailer, accounting for the pain and exertion that accompanied the writing and publishing of The Deer Park. His piece is another of those arresting homemade commercials for N.M., now no longer a product in search of market but a literary institution of proven value. Mailer attacks his subject with the energy of pent-up resentment and a confidence in the infallibility of his instincts...
Hannes Graff and Siegfried Javotnik are Austrian students. They could just as well be undergraduates at Columbia, bent on bringing off a zoo bust for the seals in Central Park. At first they throb and chortle through the spring countryside on a huge 700-cc. Royal Enfield motorcycle. But even there they come face to face with cruelty and the law. Siggy, the idealist of the pair, fights with a milkman who is mistreating a horse. Trying to escape the police, he is killed crashing into a wagonload of honey-filled beehives...