Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years before the Revolution, Sir Joshua Reynolds had seen Copley's Boy with Squirrel in London, had it hung at the Society of Artists without knowing the painter's correct name. Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look. Not until the eve of the Revolution did Copley, accused of being a Tory sympathizer, dare risk ocean passage. He left behind him three houses and 20 acres on Beacon Hill. Copley never returned to America...
Down with Squirrel Guns. Despite last week's headlines, and the FTC's reputation as a very litigious lady, the commission has been trying to reduce its legal assaults. It issued 415 cease-and-desist orders last year-12% fewer than in 1963. Its $28,500-a-year chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, a husky Tennessean, scorns what he calls "the squirrel-gun approach" of suits against individual violators, prefers to lay down ground rules for entire industries...
...Owner Gene Herman of Evergreen, Ore., "if you sold a monkey a month and a talking myna bird once in a while, it was way out. Now you've got to be able to provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas), wolves, wild pigs, electric eels, baby crocodiles and iguanas...
...first Ala bama town to organize a white Citizens Council, which has kept Selma as stubbornly segregated as any community in the nation. From his Selma headquarters, Dallas County Sheriff James Clark firmly kept Negroes down, aided by a squad of special deputies known locally as "squirrel shooters." Last summer Clark and his men herded more than 100 Negroes off to jail with sticks, blows and cattle prods when they tried to register to vote...
Philadelphia's twelve-year-old playground program has cost $30 million, is generally acknowledged to be the most successful in the country. No two of the city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool. Newest equipment includes a 25-ft.-high rocket to the moon (with a helpful slide back to earth) and a gigantic turtle made of pipe and concrete. A big draw at the Penn Valley playground in Kansas City, Mo., is a magnificent woodpile composed of a series of tree trunks...