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...complexes. From houses to haircuts, prices have rocketed. At Cocoa Beach near Canaveral, beach property that 17 years ago sold for $20 a foot now fetches $1,000 or more. For decades, California advertised its oranges and sunshine to lure inhabitants, and a man could move there with a banjo on his knee. Now the big companies place column after column of classified ads in the Eastern newspapers and talk of the opportunities for good living, but specify the skills they want...
...skilled immigrants from Europe). Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today. McMenomey so impressed Israeli cowboys that they learned to play the banjo, labeled the huts on their kibbutzim (collective farms) in Galilee "Saloon," "Sheriff" and "Jail...
...male performers, as is often their lot, were not much apreciated. A steel guitar player who doubled on the banjo got some support for "Heart of My Heart," but had to abandon the stage after the first verse of "My Old Kentucky Home...
...reaction to this monument? There was so much sneering and jeering, so much callow, loudmouthed, self-satisfied commentary from the Yale audience that the sound track was usually inaudible, the flow of language lost. There was a good deal of cheering for home states and home towns. If a banjo played, it was necessary to clap our Yalie hands. If a march came on it was necessary to stamp our collective, sophomoric feet...
Someone was in the kitchen with Dinah-and Mary and Polly and all other housewives last week. It was President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and like the song says, he was strummin' on the ol' banjo. The lyrics had a certain down-to-earth reality, but the tune-well, it was the kind usually played on that big organ at convention time. Phrased as a message to Congress, Kennedy catalogued all the complaints about modern life he could think of and then promised to fix them all up in a brave new world...