Word: wagoneer
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...bill was also in part a fervent rejoinder to a column by Drew Pearson that very day charging that the committee chairman's absence from the House (which delayed action on the bill for two weeks) resulted from a monumental drinking binge. Rivers, who has been on the wagon for years, mentioned bursitis, not booze, as the cause of his hospitalization, and his colleagues responded with a torrent of eulogy seldom accorded a living member...
Predestined Harbor. For shiftless, Kentucky-born Ben Purnell, the road to Benton Harbor was a circuitous one. After traveling around the U.S. in the 1890s in a carnival wagon, he landed in Detroit and made off with 200 followers of the Israelite faith founded by 18th century English Fanatic Joanna Southcott. Because the Lord was "bent on harboring people," Purnell decided that Benton Harbor was their predestined home...
MARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE kicked off the craze. This was the brainchild of San Francisco Disk Jockey Dan Sorkin, who was fed up with the Mary Poppins cult, had 1,000 Poppins stickers run off for his friends, including Julie Andrews, who pasted one on her station wagon. Sorkin's station KSFO started printing the sticker, and before it knew what had happened, 60,000 had been given away...
...carrier Oriskany (which left last week for Viet Nam); and Carol Ann, 20, a Cal State junior majoring in art. The father, William Wilson, 48, is a World War II Navy veteran and a partner in a window-shade manufacturing firm. He affords two cars (a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon and a 1961 Rambler) and a color television set, last summer traveled to Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. His wife Elaine, 45, a plump, outspoken little lady, likes to season her children with such salt-of-the-earth advice as "You'll never get anything you want unless...
...evidence is everywhere the eye lights, the ear listens, the commentator prowls, or the station wagon travels. If there is anything left of the Puritan tradition, it is hard to detect. Perhaps its strongest remaining element is what sociologists call the "work ethic." Executives and businessmen seem to work harder than ever (and certainly harder than the average union members), and so do students, whatever their other diversions. At the same time, thrift is no longer a virtue-it is, in fact, nearly subversive-pleasure is an unashamed good, leisure is the general goal and the subsidized life, from Government...