Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testimony continued-part of it played scratchily from long, tape-recorded interviews with addicts-spectators got an astonishing picture of a strange new city: New York as it appears to a "junkie." It is a city where "pushers" peddle their wares almost as casually as sidewalk balloon vendors, where children sniff heroin even in classrooms, where an innocent-looking drugstore or cafeteria may be an addicts' hangout...
Entrants will be given handicaps according to whether they are riding balloon-tired, thin-tired, touring, or racing bikes...
...Outing Club has set up a series of handicaps to give equal chances to balloon-tired, thin-tired, touring and racing bikes. The contest will start at 10 a.m.; afterwards the competitors will have a picnic and games with the Wellesley girls...
Last year, John Hart '52 won the race on an old balloon-tired bike with a time of 48 minutes...
Just as the balloon was ready to be attached to its basket for the take-off, a person or persons hidden in the dense crowd exploded the balloon. Some observers speculated that the shot intended for the "accidental shooting" of the Nicaraguan ambassador (which did not come off) may have done the defeating. After a brief murmur of disappointment, the crowd dissipated...