Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whirlpool Bath. The Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas, is advertised by the Chamber of Commerce as the shortest river in the world, running only four miles from its spring-fed source until it spills into the larger Guadalupe River. But some 1,200 tubers flock to it on Sunday afternoons, mostly to ride the steep, 350-yd. stretch where the river swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have...
...several Cape Cod have begun finger- and photographing summer employees in in an effort to keep increasing number of teen-agers and college flock to the Cape each...
...fashion chords of 1965: the one-bare shoulder look. Jackie Kennedy may have triggered the trend when she wore a black crepe version for her first formal outing after a year of mourning. It has been used by Balenciaga in a $3,000 evening sari, by Givenchy in a flock of dinner gowns and daytime dresses, and by most top U.S. designers, whose fall lines were previewed this month. Vogue calls it "the Asymmetric Look," but Seventh Avenue has a better name: the cold shoulder...
...consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than was the evidence when an ancient shepherd guided his flock toward the setting sun and wondered why he was there and where he was going...
...Nationalist Leader Vasil Levski, hanged by Bulgaria's Turkish overlords in 1873. It would seem that Bulgaria, like the rest of Eastern Europe, has been infected with nascent nationalism. As one official tut-tutted last week in explanation of the upheaval: "There are black sheep in every flock...