Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds' trail of trouble extends all the way back to Waycross, Ga., where he was born 36 years ago. He was raised in Palm Beach, Fla., where his father was the town's police chief-a former cowboy who believed in "fanning Burl's rompers till he knew what was wrong." To Burt he seemed a stern, inflexible hulk. After briefly running away from home when he was 14, Burt channeled his belligerence into athletics and won a football scholarship to Florida State. When a knee injury and a car accident aborted his athletic career, he drifted...
MIAMI. Condominiums dominate the entire metropolitan housing spectrum. Working-class families as well as the city's large community of Cuban expatriate businessmen and tradesmen are eager buyers of condominiums, which five years ago appealed most strongly to middle-class retirees seeking Florida's sun. Even the palm-draped skyline of stately Key Biscayne, site of President Nixon's Florida White House, is being reshaped by high-rise condominiums. Most recent addition is a group of six twelve-story high-rises on the beach...
...vinyl ski jumps and slalom courses of Tokyo's Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici Ski Station in the southern town of Garibaldi (pop. 8,000). There, on a steep hillside, are two plastic-covered ski runs, four chalets and a 40-chair lift...
...though, had more than his fair share of abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations...
...should doubt, Morison reproduces many of Champlain's highly decorative as well as informative charts, and some of the great explorer's fine sketches of such things as Indian attacks and French settlements. The drawings seem remarkably realistic, although he was not above sketching in an occasional palm tree on the shores of Lake Champlain. Morison roundly deals with the foolishness of the French crown, the vagaries of the fur trade, the hardihood of explorers (imagine mosquitoes swarming inside your steel breastplate) and the rigors of Indian cuisine...