Word: towners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just any girls. California Girls. There is a difference. Maybe it's the orange juice. Or the incessant sunshine. Or the surfing and the skiing. But there is something transporting about a California Girl; the legs are longer, the eyes clearer, the skin more exuberant. Maybe an out-of-towner can become a California Girl if she comes here early?say at about age three. After that, it's too late. She can be beautiful. And healthy. And sexy. But she can never quite be that combination of maximum looks and minimum restraint, that tranquil body and restive psyche that...
...corporation executives are upper-middle class. One new towner's description of his meeting with the corporation's chairman exemplifies the gap between these two groups: "I met the Skelm chairman yesterday, you know, the man with all those initials before his last name. He kept talking about golf. I've never even been to a driving range, never had the money. Finally, he asked me what my handicap was. I told him, "The wife...
Like many an out-of-towner visiting New York for the first time, pert Schoolgirl Linda Farmer headed straight for the cavernous Radio City Music Hall to see the big bash of a stage show. One gander at all those spangled chorines kicking away like a centipede with a hotfoot and she knew that she positively had to be a Rockette. Her qualifications were typical: head cheerleader at Hampton High in Hampton, Va., winner of the local Junior Miss contest, solo tap dancer at the Elks Club benefit and, most important, possessor of a great pair of gams...
...pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas) as the old-rich East, when Ohioans or Kansans or Oklahomans routinely take a winter vacation in the Bahamas or cruise the Greek islands in summer...
...Sharp; his cousin Rear Admiral Louis A. Sharp Jr.; Rear Admiral George C. Towner and Admiral John Hoover. Except for Oley, all are retired...