Word: parking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last, at last, it is the joggers who are having to get out of the way. On country roads and city streets, on boardwalks, beaches and paths through the park, the vehicle of choice for more and more Americans is the bicycle. But it is no longer just a sturdy ten-speed from Sears: bikers are buying everything from flyweight racers to meaty mountain bikes, from collapsible commuter cycles to three-wheelers for less steady senior citizens. The number of adults who ride regularly has jumped 70% in four years, to 17 million last year, according to the Bicycle Federation...
...Boston Afro-American Artists Association holds its annual outdoor exhibit, Sunday in the Park, a day early this year in Horatio Harris Park, at Townsend Street and Walnut Avenue, Roxbury. Hours Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rain dates, August 14-15. Telephone...
...miss the furniture show of a lifetime at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Crafts Fair this Sunday in Mt. Suanpee State Park, Route 103 B in Newbury, N.H. Featuring work by potters, weavers, silversmiths, furniture makers, fabric designers and other craftsmen from around New Hampshire, the show continues through August 14. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $5, and children under 12 get in free. Telephone...
Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based Showscan opened a 36-seat space-flight simulator at Futuroscope, a high-tech theme park in Poitiers, France. Universal Studios Tour in Universal City, Calif., is working on a time-travel simulation, based on the movie Back to the Future, that is scheduled to open next summer. By 1990 Texas-based Six Flags plans to install a Dynamic Motion Theater at its Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey. It will feature a series of changing attractions that may include airplane dogfights and car chases. Meanwhile, the folks at Disney are putting the finishing...
...love astronauts. At an Ohio delegation party, perennial Vice-Presidential Also-Ran John Glenn presented Lloyd Bentsen with a red-white-and-blue bumper sticker reading DUKAKIS GLENN. An overoptimistic Glenn supporter had ordered up 10,000, and the Ohio Senator was intent on unloading them. "Since I park next to you in the Senate garage," he informed Bentsen, "I'll expect to see it every...