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...know that when I went to Laos at age sixteen, I didn't smoke any dope, didn't bring any back, either? Do you know that it was selling in the marketplace for 200 kip-40c-an ounce? Do you know how I cried when I read all about it later in the Times, the moralistic stories about the international hippies who were crashing in Vientiane and tripping constantly? Of course, it all would have turned out rather differently if I'd been smoking over there-the ultimate horror wouldn't have sunk...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Keeping Colonial Laos Profitable | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

...command also reported that eight more helicopters were shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Laos yesterday, and ten American soldiers were killed. Two South Vietnamese helicopters, with sixteen persons, including four newsmen, were also downed...

Author: By From WIRE Dispatches, | Title: Nixon Holds World in Doubt on U. S. Role in Laos | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

Petkevich completely over-shadowed second-place Ken Shelley, and sixteen-year-old Gordie McKellan, who came in third. Petkevich won all seven first place votes in the compulsories on Thursday and thirteen of the fourteen votes cast in "Technical" and "Composition and Style" Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petkevich Takes National Title | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

Today, bartering is more lucrative than jingle making. Sixteen different divisions of the company are constantly trading off radio spots for Cadillacs, fur coats, Las Vegas hotel space and airline credit. Currently, Pepper & Tanner has at its disposal $27 million worth of spot time on U.S. stations. Last year the corporation grossed upwards of $40 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mammon Tabernacle Choir | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Ostensible control over Model Cities is vested in a 24-member CDA Board. Sixteen of the Board members are residents of the model neighborhood, elected for two-year terms. The remaining board members are drawn from various constituencies outside the neighborhood. The relevant portion of the CDA enabling legislation empowers the board to "hire, fire, select, and set the terms of employment for its staff, with the approval of the City Manager...

Author: By David A. Koplow, | Title: Model Cities and the City Fathers | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

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