Word: parks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition for a new park. Today, I don't get these petitions any more...
...Balint explains in Thrills and Regressions, published by London's Hogarth Press, his Greek polysyllables were devised after he had found, an earthy test for personality typing-how an individual reacts at an amusement park, or "fun-fair." The type that avoids the thrills of the roller coaster, whip and illusion rooms is an ocnophil, from a Greek verb meaning to shrink from or hang back. The opposite, or philobat ("one who loves to go places"), not only gets a kick out of these machines, but is the type that becomes a racing driver, stunt flyer, animal tamer, explorer...
...newspapers and magazines before arriving at the office around 8. He has half a day's work done before most of his executives come in, sometimes embarrasses them by assuming that everyone keeps his hours and calling their offices before they arrive. He divides his time between his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and Pittsburgh (where his living quarters are right in the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building...
Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: Song of Norway, Edvard Grieg's music; the park commission's fireworks...
...Highland Park, Ill., Tenthouse Theater: Born Yesterday, with Peggy Cass...