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Four skilled workers can put up a yurt like Harvard's in two days, Coperthwaite said. Power tools were used only in cutting boards for the roof. "It's the cheapest way to cover this area of land permanently," he said...
...appetite for more dangerous drugs? Even marijuana's defenders concede that most heroin addicts and LSD users have tried marijuana first, but they deny there is a cause-and-effect relationship. Most likely, they say, the disturbed individual seeking to escape will start with alcohol or the cheapest and most readily available drug, which happens to be pot. If he later takes to heroin, he would eventually have done so anyway...
...most outraged was the conservative Chicago Tribune. "This is the cheapest sort of opportunism," it said. "Not since the days of Aaron Burr has the country been treated to such an example of unbridled personal ambition." Just as incensed was Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton of the New York Post. Kennedy, he wrote, had shown nothing less than "cowardice" by agreeing to support Johnson before the New Hampshire primary. With the returns in and L.B.J. bloodied, Kennedy is "just as much a coward when he comes down from the hills to shoot the wounded. He has, in the naked display...
...Marriage was not a mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world." Starting off in animal husbandry, he wrote his Bachelor's thesis in economics, reasoning that "if the Depression continued, there would be a great demand for people...
...applause. And why not? Though the flight took four hours (v. 2 hrs. 15 min. for a jet), club members were paying only $111 each for round-trip air fare, two days of food and lodging, and a ticket to the game -nearly one-third less than the cheapest Super Bowl package offered by the airlines. And one economy leads to another. Social Worker John Butler, 58, joined the Roamers in early December, "so I could do my Christmas shopping in St. Croix." There are also less tangible rewards. Says Manhattan Pharmacist John Herzlich, 40, who joined with his wife...