Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover [June 21] says: "Our Next President (Pick One)." I say: No thanks...
...ceremonies, President Ford opened an antique safe that had been filled with mementos of the 1870s. The contents - autographs, photographs, inkstands, a book on temperance - limned a more circumscribed and monochrome period. For the 2076 Tricentennial, many Americans are cramming time capsules with different ingredients, including credit cards, pick et signs and whole automobiles...
...even Carter, ever made any move to stop him; they knew he was going home to his wife and four children. Kirbo, in turn, never argued with Carter. "I gave Jimmy my ideas on things," he says, "and if he didn't like them, I'd pick up my hat and coat and just get out of there." But whenever Kirbo disapproved of something, said Carter staffers, it troubled the Governor, and he would usually phone his friend to talk it over further...
That morning I had found a note and a road map tacked to the door of a house in Black Mountain, N.C., where some friends of mine lived, a note which said "We've gone to Sliding Rock. Come!" with directions. Those directions had ended me up in this pick-up, and just around the corner was "my river," where Sliding Rock was. I had seen the gleam of contentment on the faces of those who knew about Sliding Rock before--to people who live in the mountains the Rock is what a mud slide is to otters...
...Follow the path," he said. He handed me a baggie full of his homegrown. "Straight and narrow." (People are always screaming about the dangers of hitchhiking. Why, back in seventh grade they even showed us a Highway Patrol film about murdered hitchers. The truth is that anybody who'd pick up travelers as scruffy as most hitchhikers are has got to have an ungodly quotient of Good Samaritanism--especially in North Carolina, where the only other people who stop are the state cops Goes to show...