Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it would obviously benefit Sparkman to keep Wallace out of the contest for U.S. Senator, Sparkman's chief lieutenant in the state senate, Bob Gilchrist, immediately declared that he would lead the opposition. To delay consideration of Wallace's amendment, Gilchrist introduced a pile of extraneous bills and pledged to discuss them all in detail. Wallace thus faced the embarrassing prospect, for a Southerner, of a filibuster on his own home ground...
...grows. Each and every day, the average American disposes of four pounds of trash-a total of 540 million Ibs. throughout the nation. "The 'effluent' society," Justice Douglas calls it. The Interior Department warns that "if trends continue unchecked, in another generation a trash pile or piece of junk will be within a stone's throw of any person standing anywhere on the American continent...
...million farmers who "do not now and cannot in the fu ture be expected to operate successful commercial farms." In any case, while the number of farms and of people living on farms in the U.S. has already declined by one third since 1955, surpluses continue to pile...
...Dear old Sandringham," murmured King George V, "the place I love better than anywhere else in the world." Three generations of British royalty felt the same way about the vast, 350-room pile in the flat fields of Norfolk-never mind its drafty inefficiency. Then along came modern-minded Prince Philip, with inventories for the kitchen, time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56?-per-hour...
Adolescent Fantasy. Joe Buck is a sheep. Son and grandson of prostitutes, he loses his mother when he is seven and is fetched up by "Gramaw." At 17, he meets a girl named Chalkline Annie and makes the scene on a pile of old carpets in the storeroom of the neighborhood movie house. After that, "the persons, female and male alike, who were so eager to avail themselves of his splendid body never appeared to notice that it was inhabited by Joe Buck...