Word: millbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plus, of course, the farm. "I'm no city boy," says Hull, "and never could be. As soon as the season is over, I want nothing but my farm." Yes, but which farm? Bobby owns a 150-acre spread near Millbrook, Ont, two more of 100 and 110 acres outside Demorestville, the 330-acre Hullvue Polled Hereford Farms near Picton, and a half interest in the 240-acre Golden Hawk Hereford Ranch near Demorestville. Around those various properties are scattered his 540 head of cattle, including a prize Polled Hereford bull named Hardean Woodrow Masterpiece-one of whose heifers...
Buckley père revered, above all, the English language. "Father was always a language purist," says Buckley. "Bad grammar was for him like dirt under the fingernail." Buckley developed his father's respect for words, and used them freely, furiously and all too literally. While attending Millbrook School in New York, he appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more...
Shocked Administration. After graduating from Millbrook at the head of his class, Bill studied briefly at the University of Mexico, then was drafted into the Army in 1944. Assigned to intelligence work along the Mexican border, he arrived the day the Japanese surrendered, and spent most of his time lecturing Mexican-American recruits on personal hygiene. After his discharge, he went to Yale, where he taught Spanish and toured with the debating team. Very large on campus (Torch Honor Society, Fence Club, Elizabethan Club, Skull and Bones), he became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his junior year...
...acre farm in Virginia's rolling hunt country and seeded one acre in marijuana-enough plants to produce a $100,000 harvest at current market prices. He hoped to turn his grass farm into a psychedelic community along the lines of Timothy Leary's dream-dome in Millbrook, N.Y. But the plan went to pot last month when the "narcs" (federal narcotics agents) raided the farm and mowed the grass. "Like wow!" protested one resident hippie...
...Faculty votes to make the Gen Ed program easier to understand by renaming lower-level requirements "basic requirements" and upper-level requirements "total program requirements." The governor of an Argentinian province illegally seizes seven boxes of Harvard fossils. Timothy Leary is arrested in Millbrook, N.Y., for allegedly possessing narcotics, pleads innocent and is released on $5000 bail, announces that he is going to stop using LSD because of possible side-effects, and asks Harvard for two months' back salary...