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...skating rink, a recreation center, outdoor tennis and basketball courts, a playground, and fields for baseball, softball and football. Another seven acres are set aside for high school football and baseball. The remainder of the interchange will be turned into a 25-acre woodland with hiking trails and picnic tables. Five miles of underground electrical conduits will make it possible to install lighting anywhere in the cloverleaf...
There are few human dramas quite as compelling as the search for a lost child. When 9-year-old Kevin Dye wandered away from a picnic on rugged Casper Mountain in east central Wyoming, there was an extra edge of urgency and fear for his survival: Kevin is brain damaged and requires constant medication to prevent epileptic seizures. More than 3,000 volunteers searched for eleven days until he was found-dehydrated and 25 Ibs. lighter than when his ordeal began, but otherwise in excellent condition...
Ghetto and Guard. In the past two weeks, for example, Coll talked Hartford car dealers into sponsoring an outing for several hundred ghetto kids in Rocky Neck State Park, and threw an interracial picnic that drew 2,000 suburban and ghetto residents. He arranged for a National Guard medical team on its two-week active-duty tour to visit his office and give physical examinations to 50 ghetto children bound for 4-H camp. Says Coll: "It was about time the ghetto saw the Guard in a nonriot situation...
Covering the Mob," claims TIME'S New York-based Correspondent Sandy Smith, "is as safe as covering a Sunday-school picnic." The principal reporter for this week's cover story on "The Mafia at War," towering, jovial Smith has exposed much of organized crime's invisible empire, and in the process has become one of the best-known crime reporters in the nation...
...Australian father takes his two children for a picnic in the country. Minutes later he commits a lurid and unmotivated suicide. The teen-age girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Lucien John) abruptly find themselves at the mercy of the outback, their only companion a sputtering portable radio. Ironies thereupon crowd the air like static: the instrument crackles with irrelevant news of the world while the two urbanized refugees fight elemental dread...