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...reminiscent tournament traveler. "I remember you could get fish and chips for 15? and soda at 5? a quart. And there were sweet potatoes-we called 'em 'mickeys'-that we cooked at a fire over milk crates. We'd climb over the fence to a playground and we'd swing way up, two on a swing. And we'd sneak in the movies. If there was any poverty, I wasn't aware of it. How could you think of it when you could get soda for five cents...
Last week, as Disneyland celebrated its second birthday, Walt Disney was indeed the world's biggest boy with the world's biggest toy. By bus, car and helicopter, on anniversary day close to 25,000 visitors trooped to his 60-acre playground at Anaheim, 23 miles south of Los Angeles -and emptied their pockets to see how it worked. The average visitor plunked down $2.72 for rides and admission, $2 for food, another 18? for souvenirs-Disneyland pennants, maps, Donald Duck caps, etc. All told this year, with attendance running 11% ahead of 1956, the turnstiles will clink...
...began to crawl over Diana's bedroom ceiling ("Can you get DTs when you're only thirty?"). A heart attack carried off husband Bob, leaving Diana at the mercy of strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby"-an old lullaby his mother used...
Though India was still defiant over Kashmir, Jawaharlal Nehru had to pay a price in diminished moral prestige. In what is often the favorite playground of U.N. demagoguery-the touchy subject of colonialism-a unanimous General Assembly last week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...
Shaplin points out that the Committee had never discussed whether it wanted junior athletics, or competitive sports below the high school level, although the majority had tacitly approved the policy by appointing junior hockey coaches. It is true that sub-masters, responsible for playground supervision and vague paper work, had formerly been employed by the Committee, but even these had been dropped several years ago. Sub-masters were considered necessary 50 years ago when the school enrollment far exceeded its present size, and were accordingly discontinued when the number of students decreased. Now the principals need secretaries to attend...