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July. In Kansas City, weather forecasters of the American Meteorological Society picked an "ideal day" for their annual picnic, were rained...
...mournful melody of the Negro spiritual was not born in the hearts of a people who were enjoying themselves at a Sunday-school picnic. Rather, it was from hearts which knew the meaning of longtime humiliation, ostracism, and rape. Even Adolf Hitler himself must take a bow to American methods of keeping citizens from getting the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship...
Like most American men, Harry Truman loves a stag party. He also loves the Democratic Party. Last week the President brought the two loves together for a gala two days of eating, drinking, ribbing, horseshoe-pitching and politicking. The picnic grounds were the Jefferson Islands Club, three dots of green in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, a sumptuous hideaway dedicated to simon-pure Democracy. The President's playmates: more than 200 Democrats-Congressmen and Cabinet members, a few business bigwigs, a few tried & true old friends...
...America's "matriarchal society" has reduced education to the level of "an uninterrupted picnic." Lack of disciplined education is turning Americans into ignoramuses who have been "prematurely exposed to the democratic process...
...artists set out to show Nebraskans what their State looks like. Ranged on the walls of a David City municipal basketball court, Dale Nichols' pictures said it was a slick, sweet place. In Shelby's old mortuary, Terence Duren posted a tougher pictorial message. In his canvases, picnic wrappings were left on the ground, fat rolls and wrinkles decorated ladies' faces...