Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future, written with Neil Howe, continues his assault on the economic policies of his own party. senior editor Walter Isaacson and senior correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer interviewed Peterson last week in his office on New York City's Park Avenue...
...Harvard women's cross country team captured fourth, and the men's team finished tied with Cornell for sixth place in yesterday's Heptagonal meet at Van Cortlandt Park in New York...
Quote of the Week: "Growing up, the highlight of the week was Wednesday, when we got to go into town to watch the cows and pigs get slaughtered...Everytime I go to Fenway Park, the smell of kielbasa takes me back home for breakfast."--Harvard tight end Don Gajewski, whose father. Walter ran a sausage business on the side in Erie...
...press, sweeps through Sacramento at 8 in the morning, all traffic halted at intersections by leapfrogging police cars with astonishing precision. Not an instant's impedance in the arteries of democracy. The campaign dazzles by to its event and comes to rest at a glistening green public park in the most splendid of California mornings. A soccer field, roped off. Twenty or 30 small boys in their soccer uniforms, their parents and friends on the sidelines. The candidate appears, wearing khakis, red crew-neck sweater and jogging shoes. He saunters in his freighted way across the grass toward the boys...
...while young, spent most of their time in China, where her father was a fur trader. After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard...