Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chase the Squirrels. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen tends to be more gregarious, but his home life is just as simple. He lives in rural Broad Run, Va., an hour out of Washington. "When he gets home from the Senate," says his son-in-law, Senator Howard Baker, "he changes into the most decrepit clothes you ever saw and gets out into his garden. He loves getting dirt under his fingernails." Baker adds that Dirksen "likes to sit out on the terrace with a bourbon in one hand and a BB gun in the other to shoo the squirrels away from...
...Army's elite Special Forces have always been enveloped in the sinister. Highly trained in guerrilla and psychological warfare, they operate covertly on the fringes of battle. They often ignore the nominal rules of war in their day-to-day battle for survival in isolated rural areas...
...summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing useful activity for poor children who have no other resort in summer than the streets. Superintendent of Schools John W. Letson points out that the old school-year structure was developed in a rural past. In an urban society, he says, "it does not seem like good planning to turn all the children loose at the same time...
...graffiti adorn not bikini-clad boogaloo dancers but Burma-Shave signs, and the routines occur not at cocktail parties but in cornfields. That is their natural habitat. One of the company announces, "I'm a farmer in a candy factory." "Whaddaya do?" asks a chorus of rural voices. "I milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating with a knife at supper?" Junior: "My fork leaked." After the worst lines-not that any of them are good-an offstage hand socks it to the culprit with a rubber chicken...
...National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense agriculture! possibilities. Local industries must replace the exploitation of raw materials. The African villager must become the master of his own destiny...