Word: parks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on the corner of Memorial Drive and JFK St. will not be completely finished until next spring, due to delays in receiving the granite necessary to build its centerpiece--the JFK Memorial Fountain. But according to its planners at the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), by the time 350th visitors arrive, they will be able to stroll the $2.5 million project's newly paved paths and enjoy its lush grass, instead of the current view of dirt and bulldozers...
...could drive from here to California on a Dickens," claims Jeanne Sullivan, a librarian in Oak Park, Ill. The point is well taken; the library's copy of David Copperfield is 22 cassettes long. Says Birmingham Photographer Mike Clemmer: "I haven't made any long car trips, but when I do, I'll buy a book on tape. No more lousy radio music or CB chatter for me." Lynn Kirk, a real estate investor from Ojai, Calif., admits, "I am definitely addicted to books on tape. I cannot get into my car without them. There are no commercials...
...most recent of the Manila disturbances was a 40-hour comedy of errors that seemed to parody the February revolution. The charade began when about 8,000 Marcos loyalists gathered in the capital's Rizal Park, as they have done every Sunday since mid-March, to champion their exiled leader, now reigning over a seaside villa in Honolulu. Then, as is their custom, more than 1,000 members of the ragtag group drifted into the nearby Manila Hotel, the onetime playground of Imelda Marcos, for drinks. This time, however, they were joined by two truckloads of armed soldiers. The next...
...feeling for family -- genteel or belligerent, sickening and sustaining -- is crucial to DeVito, born 41 years ago in Asbury Park, N.J. "My father was a tough man with a great deal of warmth," he says. "It made for a mixed bag of emotions; you never knew when it would explode. He owned a candy store, then a dry cleaner's, then a pool hall. In the pool hall, I'd put tips on the cues, clean the tables and hang out. It was my day-care center. At home I was spoiled by my mom and her millions of girlfriends...
...hopes of resolving the conflict between conservationists and local interests, the Park Service has endorsed the idea of creating a tallgrass "preserve" instead of a prairie park. That way, limited cattle grazing, hunting and oil drilling would still be permitted. The Government also plans to acquire land for the preserve only from willing sellers. Even so, the Indians remain wary. "Any act creating the preserve can later be amended," says Attorney Ralph Adkisson, a member of the Osage tribal council. "There will be pressures later for limiting any economic activity in the preserve...