Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...
...race also ran into some bulldozing being done in the middle of the course, causing a jam of runners on the one side of the track. Many had already fallen in several pile-ups at the start, when some slower runners tripped in the pack...
...least, New Yorkers are most aware of their fair in terms of the bumper-to-bumper embolisms the highway expansion program is causing in the borough of Queens. Travelers taxiing into the city from La Guardia and Idlewild airports are sometimes dumfounded to find a full-fledged traffic jam of early bird commuters at 6 a.m. But fair officials seem confident that when the new network of roads is in operation, their facilities will be able to handle a traffic-jamless 36,000 people an hour coming...
...Eggs. Osagyefo, the Redeemer, was in his worst jam since Ghana became independent in 1957. Over the past two months, 15 Ghanaians have been killed, more than 250 injured in a series of explosions, and terrorists have scrawled the words NKRUMAH ABDICATE OR MORE BOMBS on buildings in Accra. Nkrumah himself, while touring a border village in August, caught a shoulderful of shrapnel...
...knows-not even the 63-year-old Joe Hirshhorn himself-exactly how big the collection is, but there are around 1,000 pieces of sculpture and close to 3,000 paintings. The treasures jam Hirshhorn's offices in Manhattan and Toronto, are scattered through his Park Avenue apartment and Cap d'Antibes villa, decorate the gardens and even the bathroom walls of his house atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., and flow over into a warehouse in Manhattan. The U.S. public has so far seen the collection only in bits and pieces, but this fall it will...