Word: scans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the isolated knoll on which his house is perched, one can scan the Georgia countryside. Billy wanted to be alone with his family when Plains became a place to see, and now he is. For the wedding, cars jammed the farm land below the house, and vans hauled guests up the hill. Beyond the pool were tables of food (roast beef, lobster balls) and booze (California pink champagne, Blue Nun wine, Billy Beer and gallons of harder stuff). A large aluminum boat was packed with ice and jammed with wine and champagne...
...same issue, an Education story about a limerick contest staged by Connecticut's Mohegan Community College ("A Rich Orgy of Witty Ditties") brought in a batch of limericks in reply. Some readers claimed that the contest limericks did not scan. But most scolded Limerick Judge Isaac Asimov for his assertion that in limerick writing, "women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men." Countered Reader Margaret Mitchell Dukore of Kaneohe, Hawaii...
...home, relax. My search for mental bubble gum begins with television, a narcotic I deny myself while at school. I am an old movie fanatic. After 11:30 p.m., the television ether ripples with old, older and oldest movies. A good evening at home starts with a rapid scan of the good old New York Times T.V. section for cinematic gems and ends in the wee hours while I chew on unexploded popcorn kernels and await the closing credits. One vacation I spent four nights in a row watching Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers, doubles features. Looking back...
...mile coastline, along back-country roads and at dirt airstrips. Fishermen churning home to Miami through the Cape Florida channel may be startled to find a white Customs launch bearing down on them. Blue-shirted men with bolstered revolvers play a high-intensity beam through cabins and scan decks with night-vision goggles. Near by on the Miami River, other officers crouch in a thicket of weeds, training binoculars on a rusting banana boat, watching for seamen debarking with suspicious packages. To the south at Key Largo, deputy sheriffs with high-powered rifles cruise through mangrove swamps, on the prowl...
Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...