Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York will solve but one of poor John's ten plagues. Who will the other nine scapegoats be, pray? C. M. GLASSER Miami Beach Sir: Your gloom about New York reminds me of the Londoners who thought it was the end when the Hilton appeared on the Hyde Park skyline...
Florida. A native of Maine, Edward J. Gurney migrated to Florida in 1948, was later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
...year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...
...Graceville, probably the smallest town ever represented in professional baseball, made it. On many sultry nights there were 3,000 people in the park for an Oilers game against hated Dothan, and one season Graceville actually led the Alabama-Florida League in attendance. The town took its Oilers to its bosom, inviting them to church suppers and baking pies for them and washing their clothes and giving them room-and-board (all very much appreciated, since a player earned from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened...
Everyone who watched television that afternoon knows that Purdue lost the ball game. But it lost more. It lost Temple Drake. As the happy Minnesota crowd filed out of the park, Temple Drake slipped into the Band dressing room. She got out of her glitteringly oppressive majorette's uniform--hated thing!--and pulled on a Dashiki she'd stuck into her suitcase. Then she went to the bus station and bought a ticket for South Bend...