Word: busters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last January I decided I would spend my summer vacation on the Pacific coast pursuing the California Dream. My plans were far from concrete--maybe I would take a course at Berkeley, or write poetry, or just hang out in the East Bay with may buddy Buster, listening to Tower of Power and walking the streets. On June 3, my papers finished, my exams over, I packed up my Long Island-Middle Class-California Dream and hit the road west...
When I got back to the city I called my friend Buster, who thought I'd vanished for two weeks. I told him to pick me up (I was at the Hearst house again) and not ask any questions. In twenty minutes he drove up in his V.W. and a meek, frightened sinner crawled into the front seat. I tried to explain my story to him but I was undergoing culture shock and was virtually incomprehensible. When we went out with his friends later I winced at four letter words and sexual allusions, couldn't converse sensibly, and was basically...
...television debut on the kick-off of ABC's new music-variety series Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. The five-man band will appear from London via satellite doing three typical songs: Bye Bye Baby, its first big hit; Give a Little Love, its current British chart buster; Summer Love Sensation, a new item. Everybody is sure the Rollers will be sensational enough to be demanded back. The group will tour 15 cities in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bernstein is already negotiating a Shea Stadium date for next summer. And the group's first...
...books, comic strips, frisbees, and his-and-her bikini underwear (ME TARZAN and ME JANE). To promote a new Me Jane bikini in Europe, the company plans to give away free samples. Warner Bros. now has positive plans for the 41st T-J film saga. Warned Tarzan No. 7, Buster Crabbe, 67, 185 Ibs,, "If they try and get any sex stuff into it, they'll discover they're making a big mistake...
...Lower U.S. crop forecasts. According to early estimates, the harvest of '75 was to be the bin-buster of all time, considerably exceeding even the record 1973 crop. Owing to a corn-damaging drought in Iowa and some flooding in Minnesota, Department of Agriculture experts last week revised their predictions slightly downward. The wheat harvest is now expected to be 2% less, at 2.14 billion bu.; and corn will come in 3% lower at 5.85 billion...