Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's new constitution by the military directory, the village and hamlet elections mark the first, riceroots step in a march toward democracy that will be paced over the next six months. The local balloting will run through the summer, then national elections for President and an upper house of representatives will be held on Sept. 1. On Oct. 1, the return to civilian rule will be completed with elections for representatives to a lower house. For a nation at war, the polling process itself is a daring, even dangerous, vote of confidence in the future...
...among the rolling Virginia hills and trees. The town houses, clustered around an Italian-looking piazza on the edge of an artificial lake, look like the pastoral idyll of some dreamer who wished that the automobile and the industrial revolution had never happened. Further, they object to the predominantly upper-middle-class character of the F F R--first families of Reston--who dared to buy homes while bulldozers had hardly completed the road linking Reston to Washington's Route 7. The future, they argue, lies with the highway, the technologically progressive city, and Megalopolis, not with a suburban housewife...
...move to the country where bulldozers were still breaking ground. As the composition of the residents moves to a broader cross section of income levels and interests, image of life at Reston will change as well. Reston's publicity, too, which thus far has been directed at middle and upper-middle income groups, will change as the availability of lower-priced homes increases...
Gone with the Wet Wash. One of the most successful detectors, Atlanta Insurance Agent Tom Dickey (brother of National Book Award Poet James Dickey), has turned up so many Civil War projectiles over the years (nine tons of them) that he stashes many in his basement for fear the upper floors will collapse if he displays them. He sighs that "the centennial ruined us" and says flatly that "the best finds are made by novices on ground that has already been beat flat." Possibly. But farmers who own land that includes Civil War ground not yet beat flat are fully...
...always had a feeling for the other side of the piano," he says. Looking like a walrus in repose, he plays for three hours at a clip, occasionally breaks out his "polished Louis Armstrong voice." He claims that his version of Canadian Sunset is great for loosening up his upper arms and shoulders...