Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles' Sergeanf Pepper album is released...
...middle-class community just north of San Diego. Raquel grew up in an all-American ambience that would have been a natural for a California Norman Rockwell. The family, which included Raquel's younger brother and sister, lived in a one-story stucco house near the beach with a pepper tree on the neat front lawn...
...estimated 8 billion amphetamine pills are produced each year in the U.S. Federal officials estimate that no more than half this production is routinely dispensed by medical prescription. Much of the remainder is diverted to criminal channels by loss, theft and misdirected shipments. Said Committee Chairman Claude Pepper: "It is alarming that more than half of the stimulant and depressant drugs are articles of llicit drug traffic...
Committee Chairman Pepper plans to press for legislation to limit exports and imports, to restrict sales of amphetamine ingredients, and to regulate the sale of drugmaking machinery. The committee will ask for limitation of drug production, based on medical need, and will suggest a ban on a variety of amphetamines, the dangers of which outweigh their legitimate uses. If Pepper succeeds, there will perhaps be no further shipments like the one by a U.S. company to a nonexistent street number that turned out to be the eleventh hole of a Mexican golf course. There Mexican smugglers picked up the goods...
...Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," on side one, introduces "the one and only Billy Shears," which could be the Beatles' way of introducing an addition (LaBour's William Campbell) to the old group...