Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from outside, the exterior brick walls, aluminum ceiling stuccoed on top and the electrical guts of the building look as if they are in place. While the landscaping will have to wait for spring, bulldozers and other machines are erecting the foundations of what appears to be a perimeter park replete with fence and monument. Perhaps HPRE is keeping the project under wraps because it lacks a (released) name. The blueprints in the contractor's trailer simply read, "Harvard Racquet Facility." Yet the complex--which will include 16 international squash courts and six indoor tennis courts, as well...
...background crooning of well-known blues artists is supplemented by closed-circuit TV, which explains each track's history and offers a picture of the album for those who the music inspires to dash across the park to Tower Records after dinner. While the presence of TVs seems incongruous at first, the programming adds a more intellectual note than the sports game currently showing at Grafton or Brew Moon. With tap beers ranging from $3 to $4, a stop at the bar is well within student budgets...
...with UC funding last fall. Founder Rebecca Reider '00 deems the weekly croquet session a "Competitive but friendly gathering." Though recently participation has decreased because of the weather, some students opt for croquet over "ER." The strange name of the organization comes from Reider's past. "There's this park called Party Park near my house. One night, I saw this man setting up wickets. I used to watch him play by himself. One day, I thought he couldn't see me when I fell, and when I looked up he was there. He said `Mr. J. knows...
...also recommend a recent biography of Thomas Edison by Neil Baldwin, which contains a description of the winter night when Edison put his invention on public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...
...Richard Nixon could go to China, then Bill Clinton can bring the voice of democracy to Cuba. MARCIA ABAD-RONKA Calabasas Park, Calif...