Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Sweep. During last month's Senate filibuster, Vermont's rustic George Aiken, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, almost despaired of bringing the Administration's farm bill to a vote during the Senate's session-end log jam. Since his committee had voted against him, he faced a major floor fight to restore President Eisenhower's flexible formula...
King was not quite accurate. The hills and valleys flanking Quebec's swift Gatineau River teem with habitations and inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
Cabins & Comics. In Los Angeles last week, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium held its second annual show for the shoulder trade. There were 300 exhibitors displaying everything from a build-it-yourself log cabin ($600) to assemble-it-yourself swimming pools, garage doors, gymnasiums, and gas stoves. In five days 100,000 West Coast fans paid $1.10 apiece to browse through the show and buy $1,000,000 worth of paints, power tools, plywood and plastics for their new hobby...
...shrimp boats. A stern, touchy man, he insisted that people address him by his World War II title, captain. Ten years ago Captain Hord and his wife began to spend summers near Creede (pop. 503), in southwestern Colorado. Last year they bought a homesite and built a luxurious chink-log cabin with a big living room, two bedrooms, picture window and a two-car garage...
...script. Advised Anne: "Recognize your style-then keep it. Your own style is what you speak. Imagine you are speaking to me-not writing at all." Later, when Lindbergh was battling through the thunderheads of prose composition, he was perplexed by the problem of how to present the meticulous log of his 1927 flight without boring the reader with such vital but prosaic details as fuel consumption and compass headings. Again, Anne had a helpful idea: "Don't let the log readings tie you down. Put them in-let them punctuate the story. They give . . . a subconscious sense...