Word: playground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This particular Rockefeller Center is not a very grand place. Set up with a $3,000 foundation grant, it comprises 30 acres of land with a small school building, a library and some playground equipment. Still, the center in the West Virginia town of Emmons (pop. 300) means more to former Anti-Poverty Worker John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV than the complex of skyscrapers that his grandfather built in Manhattan. "It's great," said Rockefeller, 29, now a Democratic candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates. Jay was so proud of the new center that...
...great republic of Venice was dying. Spies kept watch on the Piazza San Marco, clerics confiscated books by Voltaire and Rousseau, and not infrequently a tourist would stumble upon a dead body ignominiously tagged "For treason against the state." Throughout the 18th century, Venice still ranked as the favorite playground of Europe, but with its possessions dwindling, its power declining, and its wealthy reveling in pomp and cant, all that remained was shimmer and shadow...
...left there; the boys dubbed it Hoving's Hill. Empty lots challenge the commissioner, and Hoving set out to turn them into "vest-pocket parks," now has 15 being created. Finding that he could issue job orders of up to $2,500 by executive decree, he has given playground after playground the cushioned safety pavement for which park mothers have been pleading for years...
...violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that he would appoint a citizens committee to scrutinize police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley ordered the immediate installation of sprinklers on hydrants - as New York City has done - so that they can legally cool kids and tempers on hot days in the slums...
Though Miss Amurao could not recall having seen the intruder before, he appeared to have some familiarity with the apartment and the girls' movements -possibly by observing them from a playground behind the apartment where men often sat at night and watched curiously as the nurses came and went. Such a mass murder, contended Dr. Edward Kelleher, head of Chicago's Psychiatric Institute, "must have taken some planning. It was not an impulse thing. He was a sexual psychopath, a deep-down woman hater who was completely gratified by what...