Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admits to being "at home on the range," as he puts it. "When I was growing up," he says, "we had a succession of listless, weary old ladies performing kitchen chores, so I learned to cook almost in self-defense." He learned so well, in fact, that at the age of eleven he entered a newspaper recipe contest. "Cooking was considered a sissy art back then," he recalls. "I didn't want my friends to find out that I cooked, so I entered the recipes under the name of Miss Minnie Demarest...
...life the ten victims were very different from each other. They ranged in age from twelve to 28. One was black. Two were Chicanos. Three were thought to be prostitutes who hustled along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards. Four were drifters. Two were coeds. One was a waitress who, according to friends, was "very cautious" about strangers. Their deaths, however, were frighteningly similar. Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 29, all ten were found sexually molested, strangled and flung down desolate ravines or roadside gullies in or near northeastern Los Angeles. In nine of the murders the bodies were nude...
...still there (temperatures last week were in the 80s), but not the fun. So rapidly has the seven-mile-long island degenerated that it can be fairly described as a seedy backwater of debt-ridden hotels, gaudy condominiums and decaying apartments. It has a permanent population so old (median age: 68) that lifeguards spend more time assisting heart-attack victims on the sand than pulling foundering swimmers out of the surf...
DiCara believes the upcoming campaign will be the "classic political contest." It will be a contest between "different generations and different attitudes," he said. The average age of DiCara's campaign staff will be in the mid-20s, he said Crane has been State Treasurer for 14 years...
...want to eliminate these evils? Yet, the demonstrators were always wrong in the eyes of many adults I knew; they were contemptuously described as "hippies," "radicals," and "subversives." The idea that these people were not exactly right with the establishment only intensified my admiration of them, since, at age 13, I was carrying out a one adolescent rebellion against society. These rebels were different, however, and I wanted to be like them whenever I grew...