Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's your river," the driver of the pick-up that had picked me up said, angling his head toward the silver glimmer amongst the roadside trees. "Haack sthu!" He dappled the road with a jowlful of juice from his Day's Work chewing tobacco. He had been a psychiatric social worker in Pennsylvania, he told me, consumed by a love affair with the Smoky Mountains, so when he retired he moved south to settle in the hills and woods of western North Carolina. He was a strange one, this pick-up trucker with long white hair and a stringy...
...pick-up chugged along, with the cab humping upward every third beat somewhat like a caterpillar crawl. It was the single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting...
...remaining state conventions, Reagan should at least hold his own against the President, leaving Ford with a dangerously thin lead. Next weekend the Californian is expected to win 18 out of 25 delegates in Colorado and nine out of 18 in North Dakota, although the President could pick up two or three more than anticipated. On July 17, the last day of conventions, Reagan will probably win in Utah by 17 to 3, while Ford should take at least 30 of Connecticut's 35 seats. At that point, the President figures to have 1,116 delegates...
...teach himself the techniques of stained glass. His subsequent career as an artist included many stained-glass commissions, and in 1971 the cathedral assigned him the rose window. Because it is deeply recessed and in shade much of the time, LeCompte used chipped nuggets of thick glass designed to pick up and transmit light all day long. Realizing that individual figures are lost to viewers far below, he used abstract forms to depict the creation theme. The result is one of the most distinctive rose windows ever designed...
...South, $8.95 each (paperback, $3.95). Saturday Review Press-E.P. Dutton. Anyone who wants to stand where the embattled farmers stood and fired that shot heard round the world, or to visit any other place in North America where muskets were fired in anger during the Revolution, should pick up the requisite volume of Stember. Thereafter all it takes is a regular road map and the family Chevrolet. Stember has spent years retracing the course of the war, and he writes about it briskly and sparely, alternating discussions of tactics with directions to the battle sites, brief accounts of what...