Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regarding your Essay "Religious Wars: A Bloody Zeal" [July 12]: What is it that the children of Belfast and Beirut have in common-besides the bloody ground they walk upon? Isn't it that they have never been compelled-by a power greater than their parents' prejudices-to sit in a school classroom along with "those others"? Instead they have grown up, nurtured by "their own kind," with the hardening conviction that those others-over there-are to be despised and, if it should come to that, destroyed...
...inhabitants never walk if they can ride. Their conversation is boring. The food in their inns-mainly smoked or salted bear fat, corn bread and weak coffee-is "very mediocre." Worse, travelers must often sleep on the floor, surrounded by couples engaged in various sexual acts...
...approximately 11:45 a.m., after a private meeting in Massachusetts Hall, Fraser, Bok and Nicholas Parkinson, the Australian ambassador to the United States, will walk across the old yard to University Hall...
GREEN THOUGHTS. Air conditioning is the second-best weapon against the equatorial heat of the city. The best is a walk on the mild side-in the vest-pocket parks (among the most refreshing: Paley Park, a few steps east of Fifth Ave. at 53rd St.; Greenacre Park, 212 E. 51st St.; McGraw Hill Park, 48th St. west of Sixth Ave.), ambling across the footpaths of the 59th Street, Triboro and Brooklyn bridges, or riding one of the shaky, alpine cable cars that wobble across the length of the Bronx...
...physician, Dr. John Lundgren, and Neurologist Jack M. Mosier said the stroke had been caused by a small hemorrhage or clot in the right cerebral cortex. Unless the effects of the stroke spread, Pat Nixon was expected to recover, but it remained uncertain whether she would be able to walk normally again...