Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catch and pin down the essence of that aspect of reality which moves me-to fix and mark out the shape of my sensations." Sutherland's sensations when he faces nature are far from rhapsodic. He is like a perverse Picasso run riot in a vegetable patch: he draws polyps plopping limply atop earthen walls, a skull looking as if it were a spider's web peering from a lattice of green leaves. Once he caught a huge toad, put it in a jar and made 50 drawings of it. "He was a very bad sitter," said Sutherland...
...members need to learn how to act in a southern rural community. "You have to know that what may be okay in Jackson or Greenville may be unthinkable in Ruleville or Laurel." Northern whites will be spending most of their summers in predominantly rural, Negro areas. According to Penny Patch, a member of the Jackson staff, some people may find it almost impossible to even communicate in this new environment. Success for the summer requires "a whole lot of adjustment coming from both sides--it may work...
...Klan crosses burning in a score of Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...produce an attractive senatorial candidate in Houston's George Bush, son of Connecticut's former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas County, where eight of the nine state representatives are Republicans, they are trying to patch up a twelve-year-old feud, have hopes of giving five-term G.O.P. Congressman Bruce Alger a tough fight for reelection...
Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder began trying to convince the world of the dangers of cancer in cigarette smoking, he has looked as cheerful as a basset hound being dragged through a cactus patch. Last week he looked as sad-eyed as ever, but he had good news for smokers. Cigarettes, he told the American Association for Cancer Research, have been made " less hazard ous" - he would not say "safer" - in the last few years, and they are being made still less hazardous...