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...track is a mile-and-an-eighth long. The area it encloses is sparsely landscaped with thin leafless trees and neatly-clipped evergreens. A small artificial pond glitters behind the big board. Constantly changing lights on the board's surface indicate the odds on each horse, the amount of money bet to win, place, or show; the time of day, post time, the condition of the track, and the numbers of the first four horses to cross the finish line...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: 'He's Gonna Win for Me, Ya Know?' | 4/23/1970 | See Source »

...amusing works by Joan Miro, it has a continuous screen showing of skits by a Japanese comedy team called the Crazy Cats. In Japan's highly popular Steel Pavilion, 1,300 loudspeakers emit a cacophonic music. Visitors are also transfixed by the mechanized Noguchi fountains in the Pond of Dreams, especially by Comet, which rises 108 ft. out of the water and at night resembles a huge rocket leaving the launching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: World's Fair, Asian Style | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Saturday will be removed for future use and the land will be returned to itself on Sunday afternoon, ending with a two-hour musical clean-up. (Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has suggested that Earth People begin to make regular use of Kingsley Park adjacent to Fresh Pond for day and evening celebrations.) People should bring anything and everything to raise goodvibes, and a plastic garbage bag to absorb the excess. People also should walk or do anything else to get to the Festival rather than drive in cars. Containers of all kinds used at the Festival (like people should each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Earth People's Festival | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

...Masters Tournament, which begins today, the pros did have some water to contend with-a pond that cuts about halfway through the fifteenth hole. Masters officials decided this year to move the tee back onto a big mound. This makes the hole longer to play, and the pros were worried about making it over...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: The Masters Opens, but. . . Golf Team Cancels Match; Courses Are Still Closed | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

Jennye is the student editor of Labyrinth, the literary magazine at the school where 13 years ago paratroopers had to escort black children through white mobs into class. Today about 20% of the student body of 1,700 is black. Around the pond in front of Central High, blacks and whites chatter amiably, with little outward sign of the turmoil that stunned the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting It Together: The Young Blacks | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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