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...pools are set waist high so that wheelchair patients can bathe their dolls or sail their boats, and a huge foam-rubber mattress cushions a play pit for the more disabled. To give the children the experience of height, the park's designers have created a pair of redwood tree houses in real trees, reached by ramps from the ground. In one tree house, the youngsters will find a curved, enclosed slide that will give them a safe but exciting ride before it deposits them gently in the grass...
...people around here it seems that the attitude towards the march was a little like Ronald Reagan's attitude towards saving the redwood trees in California: "When you've seen one, you've seen them...
...Hillbillies as king and queen. It is also National Beauty Queen Week, "to call local and national attention to the promotion of beauty queens and their value to the economy"-though the cause took a small set back last week when 18-year-old Robyn Louise Rawers, monarch of Redwood City, Calif., was arrested for stealing clothes and cash from a sports shop. Best of all, Tuesday is Lizzie Borden Liberation Day. While the jury acquitted the famous lady from Fall River, Mass., popular legend has long since convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately there...
...over with what appear to be Ace bandages. Not all monsters are sandals, of course. Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood...
Ampex, based in Redwood City, Calif., first won supremacy in the market by the ancient strategy of being first with the most. When stereo tape cartridges and portable players appeared in 1965, most recording companies were reluctant to make the large investment needed to produce tapes for cartridges. Ampex officials correctly figured that consumers, particularly among the young, would spend heavily for the opportunity to listen to 80 minutes or so of uninterrupted stereo music of their choice in cars, on the beach, or anywhere that they might travel. The company contracted to reproduce on tape the music of scores...