Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accepting Atrocities. Nixon may well have damped the popular outcry. Few of the pro-Calley demonstrations planned last week drew much of a turnout; in San Diego, for example, only 250 supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote...
...what is Spring Vacation in Bermuda? Is it getting your pockets emptied and your legs frisked by two customs officials the moment you get your bag? Is it going for a College Week cruise of the Island Thursday in the rain? Is it being in the Pudding Show and throwing out 200 hamburgers at your reception? Or is it really just getting your rocks...
...Skytop, the B.U. girls in the next cottage knocked at our door at 2:30 a.m. A big spider was after them, so they needed some tough guys to go kill it. Two of us went, but Len was engaged, so he stayed. We killed it with Crimson Travel bag, and the two B. U, girls lived happily ever after...
...example: while an attempt is made in each issue to capture, in photo, people On the Street, there are also sections on cooking (what to-mostly organic-and how-like on a hotplate), camping (what to look for in a sleeping bag-answer: goose down), sewing, washing (hair and face), and just simply making things (like vests made out of beer can pull-tabs). It's easy enough to laugh off such attempts to begin to recapture control of our lives. There is something pathetic in such rudimentary lessons in self-survival. But once you really get into tie-dying...
...interested in your article on the new bags to keep premature babies warm [March 1] as I had a three-pound daughter born at eight months. There were no incubators, so a tiny bag was made for her from absorbent cotton covered with cheesecloth. It had an attached hood, something like a parka, and the bottom was closed. She wasn't bathed for six weeks, but was oiled daily by opening the bag. This was 40 years...