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Even at Washington's John F. Kennedy Playground, which is considered one of the best in the U.S., Lady Allen faulted the elaborate array of model jet planes, trolleys, Coast Guard tugs and fire engines, none of which can be moved. "The successful playground," she argues, "is one in which children can move things around and make them obedient to their own wills...
Lady Allen's answer is the "adventure playground." Instead of flat asphalt, the lot ideally should have hills, grass and puddles. Its main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
Lady Allen got the idea on a 1945 visit to Copenhagen, where a Danish landscape architect had created an immensely popular playground by stocking a lot with building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the same way. The kids thought that they were the best thing since ice cream. There are now 28 adventure playgrounds in England, and dozens more in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland...
...that the children learn English-something no other teacher had tried or cared about. He ordered his teachers to supervise organized play at lunchtime and they went on strike, but his board backed him up. He joined eagerly in the kids' play, spent much of his salary for playground equipment, often tackled the boys on the gravel football field...
...showed up more than an hour late for the march's start. Finally the marchers, including Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, mother of former Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody and herself a veteran of last year's St. Augustine, Fla. civil rights demonstrations, stepped off from Roxbury's Carter Playground. By the time they reached Boston Common, they numbered some 18,000. Despite a drenching rain, King spoke for 40 minutes, said: "The vision of a new Boston must extend into the heart of Roxbury and into the mind of every child now being stifled in segregated schools. Boston must...