Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from which some 40 cigarettes can be rolled). It was only a matter of time before some enterprising head decided to combine the hippie love of things rural with the prospect of easy cash. Early this summer, John H. ("Ian") Fralich, 18, a cape-draped hippie guru in Washington, B.C., leased a wooded, 35-acre farm in Virginia's rolling hunt country and seeded one acre in marijuana-enough plants to produce a $100,000 harvest at current market prices. He hoped to turn his grass farm into a psychedelic community along the lines of Timothy Leary...
...CAPE COD MELODY TENT, Hyannis, Mass. Dorothy Collins stars in Do I Hear a Waltz? as the spinster who finds love on the lagoons of Venice...
Minuteman II has been flashing its red light with disconcerting frequency. The nation's most advanced operational ICBM, with a 7,500-mile range and a deadly megaton warhead, it has performed with 94.9% of maximum efficiency when test-fired under demonstration conditions at Cape Kennedy and other ranges. But when mounted in launching silos across the nation, sitting underground and waiting indefinitely for action, it develops minute but dangerously incapacitating problems...
...Although Middle East oil production is near its prewar level, the refineries of Western Europe will continue to feel the pinch for some time to come. Reason: until the Suez Canal is un plugged, oil tankers must take a two-week detour around the Cape of Good Hope. At Rotterdam's Europoort, whose massive refineries get 70% of their oil from the Middle East, companies have dipped into reserves while eagerly awaiting the homeward-bound tankers. "They're out there floating around somewhere," says Theo P. van den Bergh, general manager of Shell Netherlands Refining...
...AEROSPACE. At recently merged McDonnell Douglas Corp., an after-tax loss of $41 million for Douglas wiped out a $28 million profit for McDonnell. North American Aviation, hit by adverse readjustment of its space contracts, including the Apollo project, following the fatal fire at Cape Kennedy, reported a 59% drop in earnings for the quarter...