Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firmly insisted that no public places be named after her, but Lady Bird Johnson had not reckoned with Stewart Udall. She watched unsuspecting as the Interior Secretary formally announced the planting of 2,700 dogwood trees and 1,000,000 daffodils on a beautiful 121-acre island park in the Potomac River. Then she sat up with a start as Udall announced that what was Columbia Island will henceforth be known as "Lady Bird Johnson Park...
...just wanted to cover the police courts, and the blotters, things like that. I had a typewriter, that's all. I had a little space in the house, on Newman Park, I lived with my mother there at the time. Putting out 10,000 papers in those days, an eight-page tabloid, the cost is only 75 to 80 dollars a week...
...Crimson cross country team splashed to a third place finish in the IC4A's behind Villanova and Georgetown on a rain-soaked Van Cortlandt park course in New York yesterday. Harvard's finish, while a disappointment to most of the team, nonetheless represented the team's highest placing since...
...best of the lot is "Lost in the Funhouse," which, although it has maddening disgressions, is at least concerned with a "real" character, a pubescent boy named Ambrose. Ambrose goes to a seaside amusement park with his family, and there he gets lost in the funhouse. We are not sure if he really gets lost in the funhouse because we are made constantly aware of the author's hand pushing his characters around. Does Ambrose get lost, or does Barth make him get lost, or does Barth speculate about making him get lost? It is impossible to tell, which...
Rated close behind the Jumbos are Georgetown, Penn State, and Harvard. Georgetown is led by Steve Stageberg, who finished second in last year's meet and has already carded the season's top time on the five-mile Van Cortlandt Park course. Penn State finished seven runners in front of a competent Navy team in a recent dual meet and could have the depth to challenge...