Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...
packer coach Vince Lombardi's reciprocation. "I don't know anybody who has more overall speed than Kansas city," sounded a bit hollow when he pointedly added. "It's hard to tell how fast they are because you don't know at what speed that pictures were being taken" Immediately one remembered now fast even the Keystone Cops could appear...
Today Beers, 46, a burly, sandy-haired Scotch-Irishman, lives with his family in Petersburg, N.Y., on a 180-acre estate that was once the hideout for "Legs" Diamond during Prohibition. Last summer, in a leafy hollow on the estate, they launched the first annual Beers Family Festival of Traditional Music and Arts, at which more than 100 country musicians performed before 8,000 people...
...guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
Mouths Agape. As promised, the Mountbatten committee went right to work, toured the biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...