Word: parks
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...leave Yellowstone by Gardiner, Mont., a long day's drive up the Park-to-Park Highway will get you to Glacier, on the Canadian border. Glacier is the happy hunting ground for mountain climbers. (But at Mt. Rainier Park, Wash., you can climb over more ice, reach the third highest peak in the U. S.) In fact, so Alpine is Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass...
From June 15 to September 15 this year, 50,000 people will visit Glacier, 150,000 will see Yellowstone. More than twice that many will go to the nation's most popular park, Yosemite, where Director Cammerer was due this week. Main gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps...
...late great Stephen Tyng Mather was taken from his Chicago borax business by Secretary of the Interior Lane, who two years later made him first head of the National Park System. Director...
...Albright, a Republican, succeeded him. Mr. Cammerer, a potent Democrat in Virginia, where he lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument to himself. It was he who handled the acquisition - through State help, private grants, $5,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation - of the lands...
Last week brought the opening of Philadelphia Orchestra's fourth outdoor season before the biggest crowd since its 1930 premiere in the natural auditorium in a nook of Fairmount Park called Robin Hood Dell. The crowd acclaimed Conductor Alexander Smallens, stood up politely while his men played "The Star Spangled Banner," then sat down to listen, with mounting enthusiasm, to the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, Prelude a I'Apres- Midi d'un Faune, Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Brahms's C Minor Symphony...