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...sprucing up his VW bus with curtains, carpeting and wallpaper in preparation for a trip to California with his girl friend. Some vans are fitted with primitive sinks and iceboxes; the 1969 Ford van owned by Ann Wasserman, 20, has a large table that used to be a tree stump. Ann's van also carries a cooler, a Coleman stove and lantern, and her boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping...
...work of a Plains businessman did not occupy all his energies. Carter launched a warehousemen's association, ran for the school board, later the local hospital board. He joined civic groups, became a deacon of the Plains Baptist Church and finally wandered onto the political stump. His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest. During his election for state senator, the newcomer found some irregularities in one of the ballot boxes; an investigation and recount showed that Carter had been beaten by voters who were dead, jailed or never at the polls on Election Day. The election...
...week The Second Year of the Nixon Watch was published (Liveright; $5.95) and the Osborne view had changed as little as the book title. He writes: "Mr. Nixon, with his shifts from the stately style and sound content of his formal messages to his reckless rhetoric on the campaign stump, seems to me to make anything approaching a sustained belief in his wisdom, his compassion, his courage, his good faith impossible...
...answer the bombastic Congressmen the veterans simply hold up their mangled legs, stump arms and valorous decorations. They say cogently. "We once believed all that. We went and fought a fucking war for it, and now we're back to tell you you're wrong." In so doing, they have talked back to the Middle American mentality as peacen??ks and students never could. They have taken the movement's cause into a new kind of reality, perhaps a cryptic reality of the grotesque...
...documentary evidence that warts have disappeared after being touched with a copper penny or a slice of raw potato, which is then buried during a full moon. Some sufferers insist that they have found relief in Tom Sawyer's prescription for "spunk water" (rain from a tree stump in the woods). Still others have employed the services of some old women in the hills of northeastern Kentucky who are said to cure warts merely by touching them...