Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story need not be fiction to tax credulity. Take the absurd story of Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee. Christopher was a thoughtful, well-behaved boy with a passion for falconry and ambition for the priesthood. Daulton was a young "snowman," a dealer in cocaine and other drugs to the bored and coddled youth of Southern California...
...before oil started to become as costly as gin, before the quest for "alternate energy sources" became the moral equivalent of war and before he started writing this week's cover story on "The Cooling of America," TIME Contributor Jack Skow bought his first woodburning stove. A city boy who now lives in rural New London, N.H. (pop. 2,943), Skow offers a modest explanation for his extraordinary foresight. "I was one of the first in town to get a wood stove, in 1973, because I went broke from electric heating bills." Since then, Skow has spent much...
...sending Christmas messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On one day, postal officials sent about 44,000 pieces of mail to Iran. The next day, the total more than doubled. The messages were simple and from the heart. Scrawled an eight-year-old boy in Portland, Ore.: "We hope you are releesed soon." In Tehran the militants guarding the U.S. embassy accepted the mail, and said some of it was being passed on to the hostages...
...years audiences have regarded Peter Pan as child's play. In fact, the work now enchanting a new generation on Broadway is not fantasy but tragedy. Nor is it, as the subtitle declares, about a "boy who wouldn't grow up." It is about a man who couldn...
...clothes. But none of it did any good: Jamie remained the runt of the family, whereas the lost David, in his mother's eyes, would always be tall, handsome, ripe with promise. "When I became a man," Barrie noted sadly, "[Da-vid] was still a boy...