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Before community interest lagged five years ago, the NNA was involved in the design and construction of Rothlesberger Playground at St. Peter's Field and Corcoran Playground at Raymond Park, and it devised a substitute route for the extension of Route 2 that saved several houses...
...Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more carefree Olympiad, free of both false pathos and the fanatical pursuit of medals." Daume and the Munich planners have not wholly succeeded?no one could?but they have come close enough by creating what amounts to a vast playground of fun and Games...
There are still several subsidiary themes which are far more interesting than anything Hollywood's put out since All the King's Men. There is the recognition of California as a cultureless, bullshit-laden playground for politicos, with a populace easily persuaded by ballsy New York admen who have survived the urban social torments most Californians have tried to escape. There is the depiction of political groupies, limousine liberals, and union stumblebums, which have rarely been so strongly labeled by their proper names. There is, finally, the demonstration of the wizardry by which we can be sucked in emotionally through...
...fetched as the proposed Grand Balloon Event, yet Kristen Wainwright and her fellow Harvard Square coordinators plan to make as full and original use of the environment as possible. To Jib Lampl, the Festival's "environmental" coordinator, the entire Harvard Square and Harvard Yard terrain can serve as a playground for his creativity. Jib is a junior who has taken a semester off "because I was thoroughly disillusioned with the state of arts at the University and with the role the College plays in relation to the community. The University should do much more to provide better environmental conditions...
...also discovered that there are several new French hotels where children can be left on their own. These hotels are "dedicated to reliable loving care for a day, night, week or longer." One is the Botel near Paris, "which looks like a dollhouse château" and has playground equipment, a pony stable, a nurse and young governesses...