Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every weary truck driver knows the highway stops where he can pay $15 for a bag of stimulating amphetamine tablets-he calls them "bennies" or "copilots." Equally knowledgeable is Harold Leap, agent of the year-old U.S. Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and head of its St. Louis office. Disguised as truck drivers, Leap's D-men have bought illegal bennies time and again, but not just to nab roadside peddlers. They aim to buy supplies of bennies wholesale, and thus trace the black-market drugs back to their source...
...independent trucks use bennies to stay awake and make longer runs, but major fleet operators sternly forbid them. When amphetamine stimulation wears off, it may do so abruptly and put the driver to sleep at 60 m.p.h. In several fatal accidents, highway police have found a half-emptied bag of bennies in the driver's pocket, and autopsies have revealed as many as a dozen in a driver's stomach. With severe overdosage, though the driver stays awake, he may have hallucinations and see "ghosts" on the highway, with equally fatal results...
There are (of course) good Be-Ins and (regretably) bad Be-Ins. This was a good one -- it just seemed to work. As you walked through the crowd, everybody had his own particular bag. There was George dribbling through his clarinet; next to him Sam had set up an altar and was burning incense; Judy was wearing her basset hound for a fur piece while her playmate jumped rope with a Slinky...
...REPERTORY COMPANY. The mix in the company's current dramatic bag is set in the English drawing room and the Norwegian household; it is also culled from the Russian epic and the American farce. Rosemary Harris leads the highly competent group in School for Scandal, The Wild Duck, War and Peace and You Can't Take It With...
...Guards may get their inspiration from Chairman Mao, but pro golfers swear by Norman Vincent Peale. South Africa's Gary Player carries a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking around in his golf bag - and over the years has won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the P.G.A. The newest advocate of Peale Power is Texan Gay Brewer Jr., 35, whose major claim to fame is that he has found more ways to lose tournaments than any other player in the game...