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...would be delivered to Saigon. Even so stalwart a defender of the Saigon regime as Hoang Due Nha, 33, a cousin and confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu's, admitted: "The Communists have put a noose around our neck." Nha insisted that the government can slip out of it, but he conceded that "it will be close, very close...
...threatened to have "Yippie girls dressed up as whores, but young, you know, and nice" slip LSD into convention delegates' drinks, recruit "Yippie studs whose job is to seduce the delegates' wives and daughters," and spike Chicago's water supply with...
Many young people slip easily into the new lifestyle; they have been conditioned by coed collegiate dorms. Women alarmed by the rising crime rate feel more secure with a male housemate. Many divorcees with children welcome a masculine influence in the house. Men like the arrangement because they feel that the single life is often lonely and depressing, and they-especially divorced men-want the support of someone to come home to without the squabbles and tensions of marriage...
...mementoes save that encounter for posterity. One is a scrap of paper which I shoved in front of the star's hands as he sat at a small table. On the slip are the capital letters T and C each of which is followed by some illegible scrawls...
...Communist). In 1935 he went to Moscow for the annual Communist International Youth Congress, where he impressed the party with his eloquent oratory. The following year he was sent to Madrid on a special mission during the first months of the Spanish Civil War. When he tried to slip back to Portugal, he was arrested and tortured. Out of prison after a year, he began his vida clandestina (life in hiding) that did not end until after the April revolution 38 years later...