Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honolulu on the Fourth of July, five men, dressed in bright aloha sports shirts, and a drably dressed woman, Mrs. Eileen Fujimoto, climbed into a paddy wagon as gaily as if it were a station wagon on the way to a picnic. Communist leaders in the islands, they were on their way to prison. A colleague, Jack W. Hall, Harry Bridges' labor lieutenant in Hawaii, was out on $15,000 bail. Last month a jury found the seven guilty of a Communist plot to advocate overthrow of the government (TIME, June 29). Last week Judge Jon Wiig sentenced...
...most Americans, the Fourth has become a day of escape rather than an occasion of patriotic remembrance and celebration. Beaches, amusement grounds, baseball parks, golf courses, trout streams and picnic areas are crowded. The U.S. countryside echoes the rhythmic "ka-bunk, ka-bunk, ka-bunk" of white-wall-tired family automobiles whanging over the endless, shimmering, concrete slabs of four-lane highways. Occasionally, the rhythm is disturbed by the screech and crash of shiny sedans meeting in bone-shattering collision (the National Safety Council's estimated traffic death toll for the holiday: 290). Cities lie in Sunday silence...
Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
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...established adventures have their protocol, their professional techniques. Mountain climbers, big-game hunters and explorers nowadays set out only after supplying themselves with the most up-to-date maps, guides and gear. But the adventure of No Picnic on Mount Kenya was strictly amateur. It did not seek to prove any theories about man or the universe; it was merely a gesture of private spunk...