Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEACH BOYS--My hockey-playing surfing, hot-rodding next-door neighbor at home was just about the only person I knew really into The Beach Boys before such veneration became fashionable. You must feel sad listening to the innovative harmonizing on a song such as "Good Vibrations" if you consider how little serious critical attention this complex music received. Unfortunately, now that the Beach Boys are getting the critical attention they deserve, the group no longer seems as innovative, Brian Wilson's musical imagination no longer so unique. Their fans have grown older and want to hear the old stuff...
...Tuesday night last week, as usual, the Parkins went bowling, leaving their two children, Lisa, 11, and Bob, 9, in the care of Debbie Earl, 18, a neighbor's daughter who had come over to baby-sit. Sometime during the evening, Debbie's parents, Richard, 38, and Wanda Earl, 37, and Brother Ricky, 15, came by to visit, along with her boy friend, Mark Lang, 20. When the Parkins came home, they were all still there -and so, the police were later to charge, were two uninvited...
Schoolteacher John Miller and a neighbor were painting Miller's barn roof at his farm near Lucasville, Ohio. Wham! The neighbor was almost knocked off his aluminum ladder by an electric shock. In the town of Franklin Furnace, Farmer C.B. Ruggles' son was riding his pony when-whap!-he and the animal were jolted, apparently by electrical charges in the metallic parts of the bridle and stirrups. A housewife in Lucasville turned on the tap to do the dishes...
Martin Mull's summer hit was "Dueling Tubas." My summer next-door neighbor, an astoundingly jaded 15-year-old, called him "the new Tom Lehrer." I guess that means he's funny. At $4.50 to $6.50 a ticket, I will continue to guess...
...Kennedy's election to President in 1960 for only two of the term's remaining four years. In 1962 voters chose the President's younger brother Edward to serve the last two years in a special senatorial election. The Boston mayor asked Huntington, his next-door neighbor, whether a similar plan might be possible on a presidential level, and after an hour's search through his books the Harvard professor was "amazed" to turn up the long-forgotten precedent. Says White: "It is a way to save the electorate from a dilemma that no one could...