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...years ago, when a playground was being inaugurated, favela adults chased children off the new teetertotters and seesawed up and down themselves. "This is the kind of animal I have to live with," Carolina whispered bitterly to a friend. "I'll put them in my diary so they will not be forgotten." Audálio Dantas, a reporter for Folhas de São Paulo, who was covering the inauguration, overheard, asked: "What diary...
...woes of Freedomland began even before the first spade of earth for the 205-acre playground was turned. A plan to sell stock to finance the venture flopped; William Zeckendorfs Webb & Knapp, which owned the land and leased it to Freedomland's promoter, the International Recreation Corp., had to buy 40% of the stock for $7,000,000. This financing proved too little-partly because builders overshot the estimated $17.5 million construction cost...
...sleazy, smooth-talking operator, always looking after number one and expecting everyone else to do the same; he plays a expecting everyone else to do the same; he plays a more sophisticated gentleman than his Room at the Top Midlander. The world, he tells us, is not a playground, but a jungle, and his use of others for his own betterment demonstrates it. His performance is entertaining, masterful, and quite real enough to accentuate the unattractiveness of his surroundings...
Into the Indian community of Teawhit, on the coast of Washington, comes young Jerrod Tobin, whose family moved there in the late 1940s to open a store. An endlessly fascinating playground is revealed to him by his Indian chum, Buckety, who first greets him: "We can be brothers and cross ourselves with clam juice and chicken blood to prove it." Woven into the boys' Huck Finn adventures is a darker tale of the Indians' past. From his grandfather, Jerrod learns of the Indians' once robust life, of how they hunted whales in canoes and dragged the carcasses...
...capital of Taipei, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unveiled a bronze bust of China's good friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...