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...potluck, fast-buck world of pop music, the Beers Family is like not with it. They sing, of all things, for the sheer enjoyment of it. They are folk, not folkniks; they offer no burning messages, no protests, no shaggy manes, no bizarre costumes-just good old-fashioned harmonizing. Their concerts are as homey and relaxed as a Saturday-night song-swapping session in some backwoods farmhouse. That, in fact, is the source of their repertory-a rich and rewarding evocation of the musical life that made the hearthside a little gayer in the long decades before the dawn...
...apart. Explains Mrs. Jeannette Spensley, who traded her six-room Albuquerque home for three rooms in Torrance, Calif.: "There's a kind of adventurous spirit among those of us doing this. You put your trust in people, and they in you. It's the golden rule taking potluck, except you toss your house around...
...lull lapsed, U.S. planes, almost without letup, prowled north of the 17th parallel. Carrier-based Skyraiders and Skyhawks plastered petroleum-storage facilities at Phuqui, 125 miles south of Hanoi, sending braided columns of orange flame and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh, 60 miles south of Hanoi, to drop 500,000 propaganda...
Nominally novels, William Burroughs' works are, more precisely, potluck: the cauldron, having flipped its lid, spills nightmare fantasies, sick jokes, narcotic dreams and polemics against pushers and in favor of the apomorphine cure. And, of course, concedes the author, "obscenity is coldly added as the total weapon...
...Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church went minister hunting recently, the pulpit committee received an avalanche of messages from out-of-state pastors-some offering to take a salary cut to move to an area with growth possibilities. Rural areas of the South or small Midwestern towns have to take potluck...