Word: decking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exercise in nostalgia of several sorts. The vessel was the Delta Queen, a four-deck, wooden, stern-wheel steamer fitted out with Tiffany lamps and polished hardwood floors to remind tourists of the riverboats of Mark Twain's day.* Its progress down the river was a water-borne version of the whistle-stop tour of fond memory (to politicians anyway). The President's manner was a throwback to the campaigner's style of 1976, as he worked some of the same territory-notably Iowa, where his earlier triumph in district caucuses gave the first hint that...
...swollen hands or the lines of fatigue etching his face in the dawn at places like rain-drenched Lynxville Lock, Wis., could doubt that he was working at least as hard on this vacation as at the White House. But Carter obviously found the journey invigorating. On the bow deck as the Delta Queen paddled down the river, mostly at a stately 3 m.p.h., the President bobbed up at each toot from the flotilla of pleasure craft that escorted the Queen. Many times he restlessly scanned the tree-lined green bluffs through binoculars; whenever he detected something that might...
...retired and Republican-generally remained shyly aloof from the presidential party and seemed bewildered by the uproar of a campaign swing. Some complained that they were awakened at 6:30 a.m. the first day by the pounding of Carter's feet as he jogged 22 laps around the deck; thereafter the President did his running ashore. Security was agreeably loose, however; Secret Service agents, clad in jeans and T shirts, lounged in deck chairs and smiled amiably at the few nervous passengers who strolled hesitantly past the President's rear cabin. Carter roamed on board freely, but generally...
Carter unbent enough to join reporters, including TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, on the bow deck one evening for an unaccustomed hour of chitchat. He gave a peculiarly detailed recital of the horsepower ratings of tugboats passing through Lock 26 on the Mississippi. He also offered some personal glimpses. He reads literary potboilers, he said. When? "I read in the bathroom." He disclosed that when in Washington he keeps a diary: "It's amazing how detailed mine is." When a reporter recalled that Mark Twain had called Congress the only "distinctly native criminal class," Carter joked that the remark...
...window-shopping: by men at the new Jinxing television store on Nanjing Avenue, by women at the First Department Store's display of pleated skirts. In neither location are the displayed goods in stock. Other young people simply while away the hours gazing at goldfish from the deck of the Yu Gardens Tea House...