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...adrift in Havana during the winter of '58-'59. Driving relentlessly toward the city is Revolution, a process that will free Havana of a mortification so extensive that Weller fails to sense its reality. And in this kind of blindness, in assuming that a nation can exist as a playground for him and his, Weller stumbles toward his own degradation as well as Cuba...
When Kennedy first announced his decision to build his library at the University last November, officials suggested the Bennett St. MTA Yards and the area near the Corporal Burns Playground in the Houghton area down-river from Dunster House as possible sites...
...prepare launching facilities with which to make those flights. Technical direction of the program will eventually come from the Manned Spacecraft Center, 36 miles southeast of Houston. At present, NASA's 1,600-acre tract of rangeland (formerly part of the J. M. West ranch) looks like a playground for bulldozers. Little actual building has started, but eventually the area will have laboratories, office buildings, and massive test communications and control facilities...
...Ravel, Faure, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...
...Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis. "Aim it at a group of friends a block away, and hear every word. " Also marketed by the friendly Futura people: the Big Voice ($12), a portable public-address system weighing only a pound, and the Big Blast ($10), a portable bullhorn "ideal for playground, spectator sports, boating, or just plain everyday...