Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have started with the blue jeans and the cardigan sweater. Then came the town meetings with hand-carried suit bag, a glass of milk and a bed with local folks. The afternoon of the national call-in with Walter Cronkite at his side was another part of being Jimmy on the spot, the man of the people...
...breakdown, visited Thorpe at his office at Westminster. Thorpe, then 32 and a rising young bachelor M.P. from North Devon, drove Scott to his mother's house in Surrey saying that there they could "talk about things more easily." That night, said Scott, Thorpe sent him off to bed with a copy of Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 novel about homosexual love. Said Scott: "He had said I would like it. It is, in fact, a very beautiful story." An hour later, as Scott told it, Thorpe came to his room in a dressing gown...
There is agreement that a 1 a.m. curfew will be put into effect. An exception will be made for those attending the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Norchi senses the futility and grows angrier: "If you think there should be a curfew and kids should be in bed at 1 o'clock, then, dammit, put them in bed." One local school, Belmont Hill, has come without a faculty chaperone. They threw a toga party on the 25th floor the night before. One of the members of their delegation posed as a teacher and signed them in. Chuck's problems have just...
...their kin to leave the colony. The visitors arrived in a chartered aircraft, an 18-seat De Havilland Otter, at an airstrip in Port Kaituma, six miles from Jonestown. They rode to the colony along a muddy and barely passable road through the jungle in a tractor-drawn flat-bed trailer. At Jonestown all were greeted warmly by a smiling Jones...
...been insulated from extreme poverty before because I lived in one of the settlements. This man lived in a traditional round mud constructed hogan, with no windows, a hole in the roof to let out smoke and let in light, and an old mattress on the floor for a bed. The ceremony he did with me involved my humbling myself before all of nature, and truly feeling, through intensive prayer and meditiation, that all nature, all existence, is interdependant; and man is only one simple humble part of all of it--not the center, not all powerful, but a part...