Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When buying food and clothing, the Staffords hunt for bargains. "I buy stew meat or something that will last more than one meal," she says. Other times, "you give things up." Their children go to a Roman Catholic school where tuition is still free. Social life is simple, revolving mostly around the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Dinner out is rare. "I have a dream for my family," Mrs. Stafford says, "for us all to go away somewhere to the beach or the country for a week's vacation together." In their 13 years...
...California also saw the entry of Norton Simon, a wealthy industrialist (Hunt's tomato products, among many others) and art collector (Rembrandt's Titus, for which he paid $2,234,000 in 1965), into the Republican primary against Senator George Murphy. Simon, 63, announced on the last possible day, surprising nearly everybody. Many had even assumed that he was a Democrat, since his money has aided Democrats -including Congressman John Tunney, who wants his own party's nomination for Murphy's seat...
...found Freckles!" she shouted. Answering the call of the wild, the late Robert Kennedy's favorite spaniel had taken to the woods near the family estate in McLean, Va. A reward was offered, search parties combed the area, all to no avail. After a two-day dog hunt, Freckles slouched home on his own, muddy but unbowed...
INDUSTRIALIZATION. "If we look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states." CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Except for the hunt, intertribal warfare was mankind's first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY...
...could swiftly establish that the Senator in question was named Joseph, not Eugene. Yet few Americans, even today, would guess that the admonitory voice and the bitter sentiment about the Right came from Whittaker Chambers, the man so long cast as the eminence grise behind the Great Red Hunt of the 1950s. That gloomy misjudgment was Chambers' considerable cross to bear during the closing decade of his shadowed life. For the rest of us it is a significant loss that a mind as remarkable as his and a life lived so close to the shaping struggles of this century...