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Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious guard dogs...
...years ago when they learned that a highway interchange proposed for Interstate 84 would munch up 50 acres of greenery that had been zoned for recreation near the center of town. The highway construction, the townspeople complained, would destroy three baseball diamonds, a football field, and a small playground and would take up space allotted for future recreational developments...
...cloverleaf for a new track and football field for the junior high school. When the cloverleaf recreational complex is completed, it will resemble a kind of interchange city. A 15-acre area will include an ice-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...
UNABLE to run, climb or swing, most handicapped children can usually do little at a playground but watch wistfully as others enjoy themselves. But young patients at New York University Medical Center's Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine should now find their wheelchairs and crutches less hindrance to having fun. A new playground for them, and a model for other institutions like theirs, has been built with funds provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The 120-ft. by 40-ft. area contains an artificial waterfall under which the youngsters can walk or ride, a grassy knoll up which they...
...buffeted around." He and his wife remember the threatening calls after their son picked lottery numbers. And it was only a few summers ago, according to DiCara, that he was threatened by knife-wielding youths who, he said, thought he was being too kind to blacks at a Dorchester playground...