Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oakland, Calif., has a $65,000 Fairyland with supersize Mother Goose characters and a clocktower slide; a 30-ft. sculpture called "The Monster" whose innards are littered with caves and slides; a series of structures made of wooden piles and culvert pipe, imaginatively painted and arranged; a Western frontier town (with a tombstone inscribed "As You Stand Now So Once...
...city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool. Newest equipment includes a 25-ft.-high rocket to the moon (with a helpful slide back to earth) and a gigantic turtle made of pipe and concrete. A big draw at the Penn Valley playground in Kansas City, Mo., is a magnificent woodpile composed of a series of tree trunks embedded in concrete under sand to form an intricate jungle gym. Even small towns are adopting the new gadgets. The town of Warner Robins, Georgia, for instance...
...standing next to the two Nigerians during their confrontation with Hayes Bick. The students took their time deciding they wanted some coffee and a doughnut. The man behind the counter waited. When he put a tray in front of them one of the students, smoking a pipe, exclaimed it was dirty. The tray was a normal Bic tray with the usual coffee stains. The man wiped the tray with a paper napkin. The pipe smoker loudly protested that wiping a tray did not make it clean. The man removed the tray and put another one in front of the students...
...settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
...taciturn, scholarly, pipe-smoking Bostonian who spent most of his professional years on Massachusetts papers, Lyons was a logical choice for the post. His reporting was often concerned with the campus. One of his first scoops, for the Springfield, Mass., Republican, concerned an academic scandal at Amherst College that led to the forced resignation of Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn. And even before departing the Boston Globe, his last paper, Lyons began doubling as a public relations aide to James B. Conant, then Harvard's president...