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...moderately priced restaurant, many customers beat the system by finding a dining spot without a liquor license and then carrying their own bottles to the establishment in a brown paper bag. The January Times story delighted many of its readers but roused the state liquor authority (SLA...
Acting on a near forgotten law of 1969, the SLA sent tart notes to owners of ten of the Times's restaurants that did not have licenses. The letter ordered them to stop the practice of brown bagging on threat of fines or imprisonment for up to a year. The order astonished the restaurateurs, many of whom had never heard of the rule. "We were stunned," said Gerald Holmes, co-owner of the Grove Street Café. Cynthia Walsh, co-owner of Summerhouse, a Madison Avenue restaurant, said she was losing customers and $1,000 a day by complying...
Perhaps the turning point was in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in the summer of 1968. The naked violence of the state, until then aimed against nameless peasants in Vietnamese villages, was now directed against the young demonstrators. Afterwards the Movement took perverted forms, such as the SLA and the Weathermen, and many former activists went into seclusion...
Boyd charged the CIA with staging evidence of canabalism in Angola to discredit the population there, and blamed the Langley, Virginia, CIA computer for "the concoction of alphabet soup groups in this country like the SLA or the BLA to perpetuate CIA manipulation of our citizens...
...December, gambling that in this foul foul year when people across the world are facing disaster like never before, American moviegoers would be bored enough to relish apocalyptic scenes of their own destruction. Anyway, Christmas was a boom. Last year at this time, around when Patty Hearst and the SLA was everybody's talk, papillon and The Sting cranked on at most picture shows and there were no new feature films to speak of except perhaps for The Last Detail, which was nothing too special. But in 1975 It's February today, and two incredibly fine new movies are playing...