Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elder Hanson took over the company, he foresaw that campers would want to be pampered and gradually switched the product line from spartan travel trailers and portable dwellings mounted on pickup trucks to more luxurious box-shaped, selfpropelled vehicles. Winnebago now crams its 13 models with such gadgets as eye-level ovens, built-in vacuum cleaners, showers, color TVs and sleeping quarters for as many as eight campers...
...starkly beautiful New Mexico setting, a billboard catches the eye: UNDEVELOP! Undevelop? Out here in the middle of a desert where freeways lead only to mesas and mirages? Out here on the range where the skies are not smoggy all day? Minutes later, however, the message of the half-whimsical New Mexico Undevelopment Commission begins to make sense as the car whizzes past a transformer station. Utility poles grow stouter and taller, then pick up extra arms to hold more wires. The highway takes on another lane. Exit ramps and gas-station signs run closer together. The road cuts through...
...decorated with red and white bunting (for upcoming Labor Day festivities) and American flags. It also has a new remote-controlled dart game. For a quarter a game, members can sit at the bar and operate little black boxes that aim electronic darts at a bull's-eye. Between dart games and watching the closed-circuit television to see who is coming through the front door (a favorite sport), there is dancing-last week to a teenage combo called the Patriots...
Michael Casey, the winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Award, is perhaps the first American poet to deal successfully with the Vietnam War; he is the first to capture with candor, humor, freshness of insight, a careful eye for detail, and an exceptionally attentive ear for language the thoroughly human fabric of a war from which most of us are physically and, too often, emotionally far removed. A former base guard and highway patrolman in Vietnam, Casey witnessed little of the action from which heroic yarns are spun. Rather, he saw in combat and heard expressed the neuroses...
...burned by the Bay of Pigs, had to obey this law. Although he resisted advice to commit a large force to Viet Nam, he still had to send enough troops to ensure a stalemate. That the escalations of subsequent Presidents were made after considerable pessimistic advice and with one eye on the Gallup poll leads Ellsberg to dismiss the general belief that the U.S. sank slowly in the East like some hapless woolly mammoth in a tar pit. Perhaps Presidents overestimated the consequences of clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received but also because of their...