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The Monster & Friends. The Kennedy Playground is only the latest variant in a slow latter-day transformation of the old slide and swing. The slides are now apt to be shaped like oversized caterpillars, and space stations, poly-blocks and geodesic domes are standard equipment in better playgrounds across the...
To the roly-poly ruler of Renaissance Bavaria, diamonds were a duke's best friend. Albrecht V nearly emptied the privy purse in 1565 to buy the 27 jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria...
A Celebrity Anyhow. Elsa, whose face in repose was sometimes a touching contrast to the roly-poly jollity that was her public trademark, made as much copy out of her unsexiness as Zsa Zsa Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write...
Promising as the pact was, there were questions about what other "sprouts" the nuclear test thaw might produce. To get an idea of what the Soviets had in mind, Dean Rusk stayed in Russia for four days after the treaty was signed, met several times with Gromyko. The Secretary of...
Among the many things that annoyed Di Salle in 1962 was his inability to come to grips with his gubernatorial opponent, State Auditor James Rhodes, 52, who was backed by a highly efficient organization under State Chairman Ray Bliss. As mayor of Columbus from 1943 to 1953 and as auditor...