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...undergraduate in the mid-70s, and drugs were a big problem," Mackay-Smith says. "This year the drugs of choice are vodka and beer. I think that students now are misusing alcohol in the same way that students in the 70s were misusing drugs...
...been pro-choice from the mid-70s," saidRozzi. "While you might think that stance was apopular one in the district, it was actually a lotmore difficult. The district is very diverse.People in Cambridge thought it was a great idea,while people in East Boston thought it was theworst thing he could have done...
...people living there during the mid-70s emptied about 20 cases of long-necked beer bottles per week, according to Sandow. There was "lots of dope. One time, we had so many plants in the windows that the Cambridge cops called the Harvard cops and told them to make us get the plants out of the window," Sandow said...
...society gossip who has spent the past 25 years cultivating the "tall poppies" of Continental royalty, decides to move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
Both total and average prices for the best horses each year have multiplied since the mid-70s, fueled greatly by Arab petrodollars and favorable tax laws. The really big money lies in breeding; the Derby's approximately $300,000 winning payoff is peanuts compared to the potential return for the winner in stud fees and offspring sales. Syndications (partnerships behind a horse's stud results) for top stallions can run for $40 million and more. The Derby winner, no matter how fast, is almost invariably retired immediately after the other Triple Crown races, the Belmont and the Preakness. He then...