Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about a Californian living in the midst of swimming pools, sprinkler systems, and ultra-modern cigarette lighters should conclude with a picture of this "professional Californian"--perhaps the precursor of a new civilization--sitting in his living room with a .22 rifle ready to blast into eternity the next squirrel that tries to munch from his laboriously-fostered grass lawn...
...Rocky the Flying Squirrel...
Died. C. Douglass Welch, 61, portly good-humor man, whose nationally syndicated column, "The Squirrel Cage," appeared in 32 newspapers around the country; of a heart attack; in Seattle. With a combination of humor and an acid pen, Welch attacked the wrongs of the world, created "Happy" Digby, whose bouts with small-town authority were followed by Saturday Evening Post readers for more than 14 years...
CHICAGO: Nothin' from Appalachia Many white poor who have left Appalachia still return to the "hollers" to sample the hospitality of home, chow down on pokeweed salad and hog jowls, pop a squirrel with the old .22-cal. "hog rifle," or just "swang on the front stoop." Others are totally uprooted. In a second-story apartment on Chicago's North Side, an obese Appalachian woman grunted heavily as she heaved herself off the army blanket covering her bed. She flicked off the stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed...
...tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater slope. Deep Quest's two manipulator arms can each grasp as much as 500 Ibs. of material at a time off the ocean floor and tuck it into two squirrel-cheek spaces on either side of the craft...