Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch television") drove the elder Ginsberg to prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police. You set a bad example." Allen, for once, sat speechless...
...Hoffman was a late arrival in the swagger set, and though amused by his new milieu, he was unshakably radicalized before he got there. Born and raised in the U.S., he finished high school in Manhattan, then drifted to Chicago. He married at 19 (three children, divorced) and worked for nine years as a low-paid assistant to Sociologist Saul Alinsky, organizing community action groups in poor neighborhoods. "In a sense, Saul brought me up," he says, "and I finally had to leave home." Starting at the Chicago Daily News, he earned a reputation as a first-class, if distressingly...
...fashioned superb breakfasts served by "the godsend of a middle-aged woman, almost a nurse, who takes such care you almost want to marry her." In a very few top-drawer London hotels, "reverence is still paid to bacon and eggs -if not to the customer. They set out a piece of toast as if they're mounting it in platinum...
Social Costs. Soon after he took office last January. Attorney General Scott expanded his duties to include protecting the environment. He hired experts to draft new legislation that would set tougher fines for pollution ($5,000 for a first offense) and empower the attorney general to sue governmental agencies. Under the laws, an offender would have to abide by a court-enforced schedule for installing anti-pollution equipment-or be held in contempt...
...CHARLIE PITTMAN, Penn State, 6 ft. 1 in., 197 lbs. This year's Heisman Trophy winner, Owens rewrote the record books with career totals of 3,867 yards rushing and 56 touchdowns-the latter eclipsing the three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers or O. J. Simpson, Owens is a driving, slashing runner...