Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival, of course, is also a feast, as in food. Says the slow-talking voice over the loudspeaker at the Ninth Annual Antique Powerland Farm Fair in Brooks, Ore. (pop. 400): "Those of you with a rumble in your belly come have some barbecued chicken and corn on the cob." Many of the 2,000 or so who were gawking at the steam-engined tractors and thrashers did just that. Gilroy, Calif., which claims the title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about...
...vagaries of American politics than about their own abilities. Harvey Sloane, for example, was mayor of Louisville when he was profiled in 1974. He effectively and intelligently guided his city through a busing crisis. But in his bid for Governor this year, Sloane was beaten by former Kentucky Fried Chicken King John Y. Brown, a man with no political experience who put $1 million of his own into the campaign, and stumped the state with his new wife, TV-famous Phyllis George...
...guess. You ran the insipid article on the chicken flying contest [July 2] just to see if anyone was reading American Scene. Well I read it, and I find chicken flying in the same category as fox clubbing, dog fighting, cock righting and rattlesnake throwing...
Spencer Davidson's account of the flying chicken spree at Rio Grande, Ohio, is the laughingest story to appear in your pages in all of the 52 years I've been reading TIME...
Despite the perils, many Americans seemed to take a perverse pleasure in spoofing the unwelcome visitor from space. Skylab stimulated a lot of harmless hucksterism, revived some old promotional gimmicks, even became an excuse to throw parties. Inevitably, Chicken Little emerged as a dominant theme, now crying, "The Skylab is falling! The Skylab is falling!" The analogy was not quite apt, but feathers and beaks were the dress of the day for Skylab watch parties from Minneapolis to Manhattan. Guests at the "first and last annual greater New Orleans Skylab observation party" were asked to bring binoculars, telescopes and crash...