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...seat in the lead car. He got his way. And he is dropping in on teas and barbecues. At one such gathering last week, Smith sipped ice water and gave his usual folksy, good-humored pitch. "I have no speech," he told 25 people in a mosquito-ridden Alexandria backyard. "I'm going to conduct the same campaign as usual. I don't believe in the vilification of my opponent. But don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, certainly not everything my opponent says. I'm not a yes man, not a rubber stamp...
...course, local boards are limited by the availability of fit males in their districts. Deferments are thus dished out on a strictly backyard basis. If an area runs out of nonessential, healthy single men. it is forced to move on to more essential healthy single men-such as students. Another board in another part of the U.S. may have enough 24-year-old out-of-school bachelors to last the entire Viet Nam period...
Throughout the entire Puget Sound area, stretching 140 miles from Tacoma through Seattle, Everett and Bellingham to the Canadian border, the land where settlers thought they had found a paradise, with sheltered waterways on the front step and mountains in the backyard, is bursting with new indus try. Already, natives are dubbing it Pugetopolis. Said Washington Governor Daniel Evans last week: "In our state's history, the present expansion is second in significance only to that during the gold rush...
...thirds as nice as the grass game at Forest Hills. It is a thin green rubber surface, made by U.S. Rubber, that can be rolled up, stored on cylinders, laid down in 30 minutes flat. In time, it may even become available for just about everybody's backyard Quonset court...
...containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose roots grow straight down, to all practical purposes, the foil foils them...