Word: bolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving a bicycle unwatched anywhere near the Square is begging trouble. Local bike thieves, who prefer fancy 10-speed models, use bolt cutters to slice any chain light enough to carry. Provided you loop the chain around both wheels and the frame, a heavy chain is a good precaution...
...unhinged the Democratic Party in 1968, has made it clear to friends that he is ready to try again in '72, and a formal announcement is expected from him early this fall. Lines between Washington and New York hummed with rumors that Mayor John Lindsay would soon bolt the Republican Party, of which he is only a nominal member, and make a run for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Golf has always had its share of distinctive, larger-than-life personalities: Terrible Tommy Bolt, the late Champagne Tony Lema, Daiquiri Doug Sanders. None of them, though, ever had Trevino's mix of fun and finesse?or his earthy, egalitarian appeal. A country-club Cantinflas, he will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love...
Until 1960, when a few artists began to move into its lofts, SoHo was entirely given to light industry -twine manufacturers, nut-and-bolt shops, metal platers, rag wholesalers, lumberyards and dealers in new and used cardboard boxes. The floor rent was low; ten years ago, 3,500 sq. ft. cost $75 a month. But because SoHo was strictly zoned for light industry, nobody could legally live there...
Many conversions seem to be like Pike's: slow, but finally confident turnarounds rather than lightning-bolt illuminations. Yet some do come suddenly. Marsha Daigle, Catholic and a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, was deeply distraught at the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. One day she opened a Bible and suddenly "knew Christ was my personal Saviour. It was the last thing I expected...