Hanging Tough
September, 1974
seven places where men are men and women better be ladiesIn a Fairly Common American scene, men, perhaps with their small sons along for the thrills, sit in bleachers by the lake or the river or the airfield just outside town, waiting a little impatiently for the show to begin. It is midsummer; the day is miserably hot and the vendor's hot dogs sit on the stomach like a load of wet clay. The kids are getting restless. Heads ache with boredom and the heat. Then the loud-speaker comes to life and...