Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparatively small but very proud and loyal group of people in the U.S. whose ancestors were both Catholics and Americans long before the influx of ethnic groups. They include Marylanders, Frenchmen in St. Louis and New Orleans, Castilian Spaniards in the Southwest and certain families in Philadelphia and other coast cities. Mr. Sargent Shriver is the most prominent man of this group at the present time. To refer to him as a "Waspirant" is as insulting as it would have been to accuse Charles Carroll of Carrollton of trying to gain equality with John Adams. In both cases, the equality...
Benefit Appearance.Pompidoumean-while has begun acting like a campaigner. He and his ash-blonde wife Claude no longer vacation with the Côte d'Azur dolce vita set. Instead, they visit the staid Atlantic Coast or their country home at Cajarc in Lot, where Pompidou is photographed talking to the peasants. At the same time, he is subtly disengaging himself from unpopular De Gaulle positions. Though he agreed with the Israeli embargo, he did not like De Gaulle's innuendo that Jews unduly influenced the French press. Pompidou also believes, in light of Russian intransigence over Czechoslovakia...
...stay away from it," says a worldly California coed, applying the American-consumer standard that if it costs enough, it must be all right. Whatever the users' criteria or confidence, they are most likely to get such substitutes as the animal tranquilizers, which are known to West Coast aficionados as "hog" and to East Coast fanciers as the "peace pill...
...Earth and Heaven, simultaneously mocking the passions of the populace below and his own frail fumblings toward the stars. Though his vision sometimes expresses only itself, it often fully exposes man's foibles and feelings. His poems are, by turns, brutally realistic or surrealistically witty. Brautigan, a West Coast poet, needs but three lines to puncture...
...above is a three-dimensional picture in two dimensions showing the relative population density of the U.S North Atlantic coast. That peak in the middle is New York City, with Washington on the left and Boston on the right. Also shown are Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay, the mouth of the Delaware River, and the Long Island Sound (population zero...