Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force of energy" that swings from love to hate in seconds, they drive teachers batty. Most teachers aim to tame them by putting "your foot on their neck," and by spooning out futilely alien education from pap-filled primers that extol civilized white virtues. As a result, Maori kids tend to hate reading, fall behind in school, and wind up being labeled "stupid." It is just such frustration (or repression), argues Teacher, that leads some Maoris to become neurotics, brawlers, defeatists and alcoholics...
...lives of others, Bill Pereira's own life, he admits, "is not particularly well ordered. My personal plans get fouled up all the time," he says. He decided early not to design individual dwellings ("It seemed to me that the average house buyer must be a pain in the neck"). He made a notable exception when he designed his own home?and here one of his best-laid plans went completely agley...
...Bill Pickett was having an infernally tough time persuading an ornery steer to head into a corral He whooped at it and pleaded with it, prodded and battered it, until in furious frustration he leaped from his horse, bit the steer's lip like a bulldog, twisted its neck and brought it to the ground. Pickett's romantic technique was never very handy around the ranch, but it was sort of satisfying, and Pickett kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country. Word got around, others tried it, and a native American sport-bulldogging, or steer...
...Strategic Air Command bombers that account for perhaps 90% of the free world's firepower. "You must convince the enemy that no matter what he does, he will be destroyed," says Power. "That is deterrence." The son of Irish immigrants, Power was born in Great Neck, N.Y. He fell in love with the air at 20, after a spin in a Flying Jenny, skipped college to attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929. A bomber man from the first, he was assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field...
...stopped, and onto the floor swept pretty Janet Auchincloss, young and lovely in white silk organza with green leaves, lilies of the valley (a Dior trademark), and a bouquet of white orchids and Stephanotis, "from my brother-in-law" (otherwise known as the President of the U.S.). Around her neck was a choker of pearls; a circlet of flowers crowned her high brown hair. She was on the arm of her 66-year-old father, Hugh D.-shy, elegant, and hugely proud to waltz her alone around the floor. The chore of greeting the 1,000-odd guests...