Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week in Madrid, nature followed art in one man's brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded...
...piers, each 10 ft. square and 11 ft. high. They will be placed on a 66-ft.-square granite pedestal designed to be built in Manhattan's Battery Park. The New York Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel with writing incised upon the walls. The lightsome, airy cubes are designed to reflect sunlight, people, trees and even boats passing by in New York harbor...
...Kool cigarettes, for example, casts a Negro actor as a bright young trial lawyer; Viceroy casts another as a bright young stockbroker. Schaefer beer has a junior executive type who plays hand ball at the club with a white friend, who throws his arm around his shoulder as they stroll off to a classy cocktail lounge...
...McCarthy's volunteers is now the campaign headquarters for Nixon and Agnew. Directly across the street is the Humphrey-Muskie headquarters, a 70-foot walk for any dispossessed McCarthyites in search of a cause. But last week, in Portland and across the na tion, few were taking the stroll...
Taxi drivers, taking passengers to the high-domed, gleaming beige mansion on Washington, D.C.'s fashionable Foxhall Road, are apt to ask if it is an embassy. Pedestrians sometimes mistake it for a new museum, stroll in to peer at Bonnard's radiant Après le Déjeuner in the foyer. The house is not an embassy or museum, but neither is it an ordinary home. It is the new, luxurious, $1.5 million-plus home of David Lloyd Kreeger, 59, and his wife Carmen, who built it as a sort of shrine...