Word: sackful
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Plucky, Not Stupid. But not everyone was ready to tumble from his easy chair and into his hiking boots. A California radio announcer shunned the forced marches, made plans instead for a "restathon," vowing he would attempt 20 nonstop hours in the sack. Even psychiatrists got into the act. In San Francisco one shrugged that the hikers were merely seeking "ego boosters." "The one who does it can look down contemptuously on the one who can't," said he, looking down even more contemptuously...
...anti-Japanese outburst, even though Shreve, Lamb & Harmon were working on a number of military bases. "You are one of our best men," said Richmond Shreve, "and I'm going to back you all the way." But in Seattle that Dec. 8, Yamasaki's father got the sack from the firm that had employed him for more than 30 years. Then
...comes either with sleeves or without, street-length or to the floor. It has a plain neck, and if it has sleeves, it has two of them. Although it comes in all materials, it is most popular in wool and most effective in jersey variants, which do what the sack was not permitted to do-cling...
...change will result from the redistricting required in 25 states after the 1960 census. A characteristic case is in Illinois, where seven-term Democrat Peter F. Mack Jr. and Freshman Republican Representative Paul Findley were squeezed into a new downstate district by a G.O.P. legislature that clearly hoped to sack Mack. An unpredictable liberal (he voted against foreign aid this year), Mack was given twelve rural Republican counties. Findley, a weekly newspaper publisher and a Goldwater conservative, seems ahead. But Mack is durable: when another G.O.P. legislature gerrymandered his district a decade ago he won anyway. In West Virginia, eight...
...Potholder Man. Last week in West Hartford. Representative Seely-Brown slung a paper boy's sack over his shoulder, rang doorbells, chatted briefly with the housewife, then handed out a brown-and-white potholder bearing the words: "Seely-Brown for U.S. Senator." Making a beeline for the next bell, he explained: "People throw campaign cards and buttons away. They keep potholders in their kitchens. A housewife will remember anyone who takes the time to knock on her door and give her something for her kitchen...