Word: seaboarders
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...come alive to the heart-moving sight of "White Wavys" (snow geese) settling into range or the whisper of duck wings in the reeds just before the birds take off. Last week, as wintering waterfowl beat their way south, hunting seasons were opening along the ancient flyways: the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats and drafty duckblinds, as hunters tried every trick in the book to bring home the legal...
...original pressure for this bill came primarily from the eastern seaboard colleges. One story claims that the movement never would have started if, in the summer of 1951, one of the bright young men from an Eastern college--faced with unemployment for the summer--had not hit upon a new approach to the problem. After being turned down a half dozen times by employers who feared he would leave them before the summer was over lest he top his $600 limit, he abandoned his role as "College Student Seeking Summer Employment...
...individual may attain his freedom in contemporary U.S. society, Riesman has had to examine that society anew. The result is a "construction," a way of looking at the U.S. which is more presently fruitful than older conceptions such as the class struggle or the frontier v. the seaboard. At the very least, Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word for Riesman. It means...
...label, "Mr. Dewey's Senator," and voted and acted strictly according to his own lights. A pioneer Ikeman; he has nevertheless disagreed with the President on some issues (examples: he voted against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which he considered a threat to New York's seaboard interests, and the housing bill, which he called inadequate...
After the sneak attack by Hurricane Carol (TIME, Sept. 13), which took 68 lives and destroyed half a billion dollars' worth of New England property, the entire Atlantic seaboard was anxiously alerted for the next big seasonal storm to come rolling north. There was not long to wait. Before New England had half mopped up the mess left by Carol, Hurricane Dolly roared harmlessly by. Then came Edna...