Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Common Marriage. Most of the 1,300 nomads who have been drawn to "BossTown," as they call it, are not so ambitious. Moreover, as in San Francisco and New York, the hippie ranks have been infiltrated by hoodlums and narcotics peddlers. "They aren't the classy hippies, the beatniks or bohemians," says Detective Sergeant Richard Crowley, whose District 2 includes the Common. "Many of them are just criminal types." Police have become alarmed by the peddling and use of drugs in the Common, and since April 1, some 600 hippies-or pseudo hippies-have been arrested on rape, robbery...
Mindful of the confusion that followed the 1961 call-up of reservists during the Berlin crisis, the armed forces were better prepared this time. As a result, there have been far fewer complaints about inadequate facilities, shortages of equipment and weapons or lack of something useful to do. Nonetheless, the men find plenty to gripe about: after all, they were moved abruptly from what sociologists call a goal-oriented society into the tell-'em-nothing, keep-'em-busy world of the military...
...decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a diverse, sprawling operation that Wall Street analysts now call a "retail conglomerate." Only too happy to shed the food-chain label, Jewel President Donald S. Perkins, 41, prefers to think of his new-look company as a general merchandiser serving "whatever needs the consumer may have...
...full-sized cars of eight years ago-seems to reflect a conservative trend in auto buying. In part, this is attributed to a more mature group of buyers: many youngsters, who would normally buy the hot-shot styles, are either in the military service or anticipating a call...
...musical prestige as well as pitch, it is hard to get any lower on the scale than the double bass. Rumbling and ungainly, it is the bullfrog of the orchestral lily pond-laughed at by laymen, slighted by composers, and even cursed by its own players, who call it a "monster" or a "baroque doghouse." Once, after Conductor Serge Koussevitzky gave his Boston Symphony players a dazzling demonstration of bass playing, one of them said he was so good that "he sounded like a lousy cellist." At the time, Koussevitzky was one of three men in the 250-year history...