Word: woodlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently, New York Toy Designer Don Traub and a friend drove into Wyoming's Grand Tetons in Jackson Hole, parked where the road ended, swung their heavy rucksacks and sleeping bags on their backs, and hiked north along a woodland trail to Leigh Lake. From there, they rowed better than two miles to the foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted...
...Walnut Street prison in a balloon, accompanied by a small, whimpering dog. While President George Washington and hundreds of Philadelphians craned their necks in amazement, Blanchard panicked a squadron of pigeons and drifted nonchalantly out of sight. After 46 minutes in the air, he plopped down in a woodland 15 miles away and placated the scared natives with wine...
...Manhattan, he is building what he plans to be "the largest and most beautiful research, science and engineering center in the world." He visualizes a $200 million development of laboratories and research firms, with homes, shops and recreation facilities for a population of 100,000 people living in a woodland preserve. Union Carbide already has a $9,000,000 nuclear lab completed. Dowling's City Investing has pumped another $1,000,000 into an international research building for other companies to try on a rental basis before making a full commitment. Next week, to lure more potential customers...
...Park Zoo four months after a U.S. district court ruled that segregation in the park was unconstitutional. The animal sale marked the end of Montgomery's park system, left the city's 45,000 Negro and white children without a public swimming pool, tennis court or woodland glade...