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...farmer often uses "very slipshod methods" in selecting a wife. "The eligible-bachelor farmer falls victim of a moonlight night, or a dulcet voice, or a sniff of My Sin, never giving a thought as to whether or not the creature in his arms can strip a cow dry or hoist the back end of a wagon . . . Farmers don't usually fall in love with the deep-bosomed, wide-hipped, somewhat unimaginative women who make the best farm wives...
...ordinary farm girl who takes her calf to the county fair and gets a blue ribbon, and goes to college, too, and dates her boy friend on the next farm. They go to dances together, and they eat hot dogs and drink Cokes at football games and, on some moonlight night in autumn, while parked for a spell in the lane, he pops the eternal question...
...with 62-ft. stage, arboreal wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...
...moonlight night in 1951, Charley Gilliland was staring down a long ravine covered by his BAR when the shadows erupted in a mad, whistle-blowing, screaming Chinese attack. Rifle fire raked his position; shells crashed in around him. Charley Gilliland stood firm, aiming, firing, aiming, firing. His ammunition loader was killed, but still he held the position. Two Chinese got behind Gilliland. He left his foxhole, killed them both with a pistol. But he was shot in the back of his head himself. The order came for the company to retreat. Gilliland asked permission to stay so that he could...
...Republicans: 1) The honest-to-goodness grass roots campaign by Vice President Dick Nixon. 2) The dramatic last-minute appeal by Senator Joseph McCarthy to Republicans to forget their differences. 3) The eleventh-hour realization by Republican campaigners that they were in a fight and not punting in the moonlight...