Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...
...small setback Monday in its unwearying efforts to thrust service upon the Harvard community. Partisans of the Eliot House Grill descended upon Jonathan Trumbull '64, HSA food man, and harassed him to the point of stealing his food, burning Dustin M. Burke '52 in effigy, and liberating his food wagon. The vigilantes sought refuge in the Eliot House Chapel...
...foot along Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River on flatboats. A flatboat, though little more than a raft thrown together at the headwaters of the Ohio for a one-way trip, could carry a family or two with children, slaves, cattle, even a wagon. "The lowly raft had become an ark sweeping a whole people into possession of an empire," writes Historian Van Every in the third installment of his projected four-volume chronicle of The Frontier People of America...
Oats & Outs. Television has two new westerns this year and one of them is first-rate. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (ABC) is based on Robert Lewis Taylor's novel about a boy's life in a wagon train on the California trail. It is directed with a spare honesty and superbly acted by Dan O'Herlihy as Jaimie's father. The trail story has its light side, but a necessary, ruthless brutality is always present: women are attacked, children die, a man is knocked cold, then strapped to a horse and sent to a party...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with...