Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue sky over beyond the livestock barns; a lemon-shake stand squeezes between a tractor exhibit and the milking parlor; on your left, the Pleasantville Community School stage band is warming up for a concert, and over there, an hour from now, the quilt-making demonstrations will begin. Pick up some cotton candy along...
Forty mules and Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox turned up for "Mule Day" at Gold Hills amusement park in Dahlonega, Ga. Maddox headed up a panel of four judges to pick the prettiest, ugliest and orneriest mules -with Ida, Bullwinkle, and a six-week-old youngster named Tom respectively getting the nod. While Maddox declined invitations to enter the hog-calling contest and greased-pig chase, he did accept a challenge to mount a mule. His first effort ended in a disastrous sprawl on the ground, and on the second try Maddox somehow wound up mounted backward...
...means the most important -in bringing about social change. Sounding something like the antieducationists of old, Sociologist James Coleman recommends that students spend a part of their learning years in outside jobs. They would not be so segregated from the rest of society, and they would pick up experience of life that they miss in the classroom. Increasingly, colleges are offering students the opportunity to interrupt their studies to take temporary jobs...
...about a recurring dream she has. The House seems to become the last refuge of a disaster wrecked earth. It quickly fills up with refugees from distant places--like Dunster House. Cots appear in the dining room, strange faces lean against the walls in the underground tunnels. The pick of Widener's collection is transported to the House, and quickly overflows the House library, forming stacks in the entryways. She attributes the dream to exam period, but I'll bet that plenty of Harvard administrators have lately ben having the same fantasy, only on a larger scale...
Decals are absolutely taboo, although your parents will probably sneak into the Coop before they leave to pick one up for the family car. They probably think going back to the neighborhood without one would be like going back naked...