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With seven months still left before the California Republican primary, the gubernatorial contest between Richard Nixon and Goodwin Knight had already achieved the social level of a Juke-Kallikak picnic...
...Like a Picnic. Gut-fighting on the editorial page has largely passed from vogue. Today, many U.S. editorial cartoonists treat their cartoons merely as squiggles to relieve the boredom of the editorial page, end up boring their readers with such stereotyped figures as Uncle Sam, Justice and Lady Luck, such stock targets as drunken driving, Soviet Russia and unscrupulous landlords. To cover their own inadequacies, they often over-label until the reader misses the point for the paragraphs. "There are little figures running around labeled 'Administration,' " says the London Evening Standard's Vicky, "and if they draw...
...poplars. At Kennedy Meadow, just north of Yosemite Park in the California Sierra, campers hiked along a winding stream through pine and fir forests and sandy flats, fished for brownies and slept under the stars. At Minnesota's Lake Carlos State Park, the overflow of campers slept under picnic tables...
...Yellowstone are "smarter than the average bear": they can open automobile doors, and some have been known to slip a paw through a small ventilator window of a car and open the door from the inside. At Yellowstone recently, a good-sized black bear ambled up to a picnic table where two couples were dining. Three of the people quickly withdrew, but the hostess stayed put. "I cooked this breakfast," cried she angrily, "and no damned bear is going to eat it!" With that, she whacked the animal over the head a few times with her skillet, and the bear...
...Just the man I wanted to see," said Nik, chuckling jovially as he gasped for breath. He grabbed my arm and pushed me between the bookcase and the armchair. "Boris and I were just practicing a little for the family picnic this weekend," he explained, deftly taking a pass from Boris and shooting it by my knee into the corner wastebasket...