Word: parks
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East met West, Midwest and South at Franklin Park Saturday--and the West conquered...
...coast of Southern California, a small boat tows a 760-ft.-long tower of steel known as Platform Gail in an endless circle. In August, Chevron had the $25 million, Japanese-built drilling rig pulled across the Pacific, intending to set it up near the Channel Islands National Park. But last week the California coastal commission refused for a second time to give Chevron the go-ahead, partly because of fears that a spill could threaten the park's brown pelicans. Chevron is appealing the decision to Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige. Meanwhile, the company is racking...
...territory. It was usually Bob who chatted with reporters, Bob who worked the crowds at cocktail parties. It was also Bob Tisch who created a growing New York social institution, the power breakfast. One favored spot for early morning conferences is the Loews-owned Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, where the rich and famous, along with people who merely aspire to be, can be found eating two eggs and bacon (price...
Word of Wyman's departure quickly spread to a party on Manhattan's East Side. A nebula of CBS and other journalism luminaries had gathered on the day of the board meeting at the Park Avenue apartment of Designer Mollie Parnis to fete 60 Minutes Host Mike Wallace and his bride of 2 1/2 months, Mary Yates. The already festive mood brightened considerably as an old Wallace friend telephoned over the news. There is little love lost for Wyman in CBS journalism circles, where the ex-chairman's decisions have been a target for strident criticism. Partygoers vied to congratulate...
...commemorate them: at Royal Birkdale in England, where a particular six-iron took the British Open; at Cherry Hills near Denver, where they told him he was too far behind in the U.S. Open, so he drove the first green, a par four, and won. A monument at Rancho Park records the 12 he made on a single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly straight down." Another time, in Melbourne...