Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Felicia Lamport lives in Cambridge. She has published Scrap Irony, a volume of light verse, and Mink on Weekdays, an account of her childhood in New York. Some of the pieces below have appeared in Harper's and McCall's, and will be included in another book of verse to be published soon by Houghton-Mifflin...
...difference is that Writer-Director Don Owen, a gifted 30-year-old Canadian, approaches his rusty theme the way a junk sculptor approaches a scrap heap-with zest and spirit and an evergreen appetite for discovery. Improvising action and dialogue, Owen achieves a cinema of spontaneity. His film is choked with words, yet the words effectively express the jumpy, inarticulate restlessness of youth...
...demand that the government carry out those objectives." As a first step, Madrazo promises, candidates for every elective office in Mexico will be chosen "out in the daylight." He plans to replace old party hacks with bright young leaders, recently blocked an attempt by conservative P.R.I. office holders to scrap a constitutional provision restricting Congressmen to a single term. To infuse a "new mystique and a new militancy," Madrazo has set up three committees of distinguished citizens to advise P.R.I. on political, social and economic issues. "These groups," he says, "will be the tip of a bayonet pressing against...
During the steel campaign, we dug up the basketball courts to make small furnaces, and students worked alongside teachers in shifts, day and night. I remember pulling a cart-load of scrap iron from a railway siding to the school (probably about ten miles), catching a few hours of sleep on a desk, and then taking my turn at the furnaces. The slogan then was "in the furnace we temper steel, outside we temper people...
...mater's portfolio is a labor of love. A descendant of George Cabot (1752-1823), a Federalist leader and one of Massachusetts' first U.S. Senators, Paul Cabot naturally entered Harvard and received an M.B.A. from the business school, before he went into investing. Cabot collected so much scrap metal as salvage director of the War Production Board that his friend Douglas Dillon called him "the king of the junkies...