Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch star in Paramount's 1954 Ceylon-based love triangle. Elephant Walk. Color...
...plane," he recently recalled, "and pictured it more or less as if something had happened to the pilot who was flying us back. We were very much in the same shape as if he fell at the controls and one of our boys had to walk up there and bring the plane in, flying at 700 m.p.h., with no plans showing how long the runways were, with no maps, no notes...
What is more, I explicitly pointed out that the Administration of the University of California has always had a difficult line to walk between its obligations to the state and the taxpayers on the one hand and the students and faculty on the other; that up to this year it has performed this balancing act with some skill and has managed, by providing the safety valve of the Bancroft strip, to accxodate the needs of an increasingly active body of students and nonstudent hangers-on; and that the growing attraction of the Berkeley campus for militants and activists...
...Walk a few steps past the American history monographs on the fourth level of Widener's stacks and you will find yourself amid such engaging titles as The Vice Czar Murders, Death in the Wheelbarrow, The Corpse Wore a Wig, and Who Cut the Colonel's Throat? You are looking at some of the nearly 2000 detective novels from the 1930's and early 1940's that the University shelves with other fiction in the PZ section. And although Widener's librarians are doubtless more comfortable thinking of these books as the George A. Reisner Collection, official terminology cannot disguise...
That is why still, despite re-zoning, Manhattan is an incongruous potpourri of mini-neighborhoods, each with its own trace of accent, its own numbered Main Street. Don't register surprise when you turn a corner in New York and find a different town: Walk reconstituted from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...