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...Cathedral through September 11. Reviews of the Festival's other three productions will appear in the next issues. The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes under three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Route 91 bypass and either Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway or Exit 32 from the Connecticut Turnpike. Performances tend to begin promptly at the designated hour. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers.) final scene, when Falstaff appears with a saffron cloth tied on his stick to hail and cheer the prince-becomeking, only to be banished in return by the just...
...spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than it can handle. Creative Playthings sells some 50 gerbils a week at $15 a pair, through its Manhattan retail outlet, Princeton, N.J., headquarters and well...
...accident occurred on the Taconic Parkway in the Berkshire Mountains. The ear went out of control and careened along a guardrail. When the guardrail came to an end, the car left the road entirely and collided with a wall of rock...
...calls the period of caveat viator-let the traveler beware. With the '20s came the concept of traffic engineering, which finally adapted the carriage road of history to the internal-combustion car, providing gradual curves, smooth surfaces, low grades, road markers-and some helpful innovations. One was the parkway, which was born along the Bronx River in New York's Westchester County in 1922 and pioneered the principle of separated opposing lanes. Another was the cloverleaf, the essential invention that lets traffic on two divided highways cross and merge in all possible directional combinations without interrupting flow...
...looked as if a trap had been set for one of the nation's ten most wanted criminals. Lurking beside a crowded New York City parkway one noon last week were four busloads of police brass, 125 newsmen and a dozen patrolmen, including six cops in two prowl cars casing every passing motorist...