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...long suit is small talk, the simple, spontaneous gesture. On a visit to the Oklahoma State Fair, she took cotton candy, stroked a prize Hereford on the head and rode the merry-go-round, saying, "This is part of the American spirit-you don't need much to be happy." Is she happy? someone dared ask the First Lady. "Yes, I am. I've got the greatest guy in the world." Presented with a sunbonnet, she put it on and kept it on all the way back to Washington, ex plaining whimsically: "I think this is the real...
EVEN in good times many farmers like to complain. In Bakersfield, Calif., Joe Garone looked out over his 2,800 acres rich with cattle and cotton and said: "It used to be that we had three major problems-weather, pests and markets. Now we've got one that's even bigger-Government interference." In the midst of the nation's harvest this week, Garone and the other 2.9 million American farm owners have scant reason to worry about any of those problems-least of all the openhanded Federal Government. The 1972 crop should show the most bountiful...
...oppressed by whites but equally disgusted by the lack of effectiveness of black community and cultural leaders. They are agents who wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas against the rest of the world. Until Super Fly, the hardened Chester Himes cops of Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue were the only colorful heros who also possessed social conscience and civic sense (though both efforts were sabotaged by, respectively, clumsy and cutesy direction...
...Mombasa. By the time Uganda was granted independence by the British in 1962, the Asians, who were better educated and more enterprising than the majority of the Africans with whom they dealt, ran four out of five businesses in the country, and had monopolized the important coffee and cotton industries. Black Ugandans resented both the Asians' economic dominance and their social exclusiveness. Nonetheless, at least 23,000 of the estimated 90,000 Asians in Uganda in 1962 applied for Ugandan citizenship. Most of the rest retained their British passports...
...Cotton's electric influences have far from absorbed the band's other styles. Poco has long included an acoustic segment in their shows, pickin' their way through "You Are the One," "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," and their medley of "Hard Luck," "Child's Claim to Fame," and "Pickin' up the Pieces." The acoustic songs, particularly "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," retain much more country feeling than the electric music. These songs are Rusty Young's, and he acknowledges his pedal steel predecessors with some of the purest country steel guitar outside Nashville on "Honky-Tonk," and his own instrumental "Grand Junction," with...