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...country trek during which he and three companions hauled a 100-lb. cross. Part of Blessitt's message is in the little red Day-Glo stickers (JESUS LOVES YOU, TURN ON TO JESUS) that he and his followers plant everywhere. Part of the message is in the drug argot that he raps out to his street audiences: "You don't need no pills. Jes' drop a little Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Christ is the ultimate, eternal trip...
...argot of the drug world, it is "paraphernalia": the necessary accouterments to merchandising heroin. The small glassine envelopes, or "bags," used to package heroin are paraphernalia. So, too, are the legal, harmless powders used to dilute the drug, usually quinine, dextrose, lactose or mannite. According to a House Select Committee on Crime investigation in New York City, peddling paraphernalia has grown into a $5,000,000-a-year business...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
Common Humanity. Not all speakers appealed to understanding and common sense. Borrowing Spiro Agnew's argot, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine took potshots at "Potland," which he said is waging "hysterical warfare" against "Squareland." Speaking at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paine proposed a hypothetical Cabinet for the country, including Timothy Leary (Secretary of Agriculture), Jane Fonda (Interior), Arlo Guthrie (H.E.W.), Ralph Nader (Commerce) and Bobby Scale (Attorney General). Paine asserted that Potlanders were heavily dependent on "foreign aid" from Squareland. His words were generally ill-received. "The speech had one thing going for it," said a Worcester administrator...
...forever. Indeed, such giant mutual funds as Massachusetts Investors Trust and Dreyfus have begun to buy cautiously in the past few days. But there is a considerable body of opinion that the recovery, whenever it begins, will be slow and struggling -"saucer-shaped" rather than "V-shaped," in the argot of the chartists. Some reasons for that expectation: the avowed intention of the Government to permit only a gradual growth of money supply and the likelihood that many individual investors, burned badly for the first time in their lives in the current bear market, will think long and hard about...