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...tell you about the Spruce Creek Airport Keg Party Raid...
...hair cut, there he takes his laundry (giving rise to a Democratic gag: "Pat Nixon takes it down to the Potomac and beats it with a stick"). When he is not dining out, he eats in the White House mess. Nominally, he lives in a town house overlooking Rock Creek Park. As one of his occasional dates, Barbara Howar, put it: "The place looks like a Holiday Inn. The furniture is sort of Grand Rapids Motel. The one room that shows that somebody lives there is his library. The walls and bookshelves are lined with pictures of Henry with every...
...friend. Rural life has always been hard and mountain people have never felt the need to suffer it entirely alone. The 5-string banjo, fiddle and dulcimer occupied places of honor in countless cabins, and the Saturday night square dance was a regular occurrence on practically every creek. Any people accustomed to long, hard hours spent just in the business of existing learn quickly to catch any available moment for sociability. The excitement of mountain, or country, music is a reflection of undaunted desire to communicate, in spite of an often raw existence...
...buying public, after all of the sex manuals, was prime for a non-fiction book that reads like a good novel. However, what is clear is that, in Brown's words, "history has a way of intruding upon the present." After reading the descriptions of the Chivington and Sand Creek Massacres and the slaughter at Wounded Knee, it becomes far more difficult to feign surprise at MyLai, and mumble convincingly that that's just not the sort of thing that American boys will do. One's excitement over the Pentagon Papers is somewhat diminished by Brown's account...
...source of Hartford's stench is two lagoons to the west of the town. They were bulldozed out by Libby, McNeill & Libby, when the company found that the discharge from its big beet-processing plant at Hartford was polluting the local creek. The idea was that the two lagoons would serve as a cesspool area, where wastage could be aerated and treated until it was pollution-free...