Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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's dream-dome in Millbrook, N.Y. But the plan went to pot last month when the "narcs" (federal narcotics agents) raided the farm and mowed the grass. "Like wow!" protested one resident hippie...
...capita (given or pledged), or six times as much as Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, once observed that New Haven (pop. 142,000) came closest to "our dream of a slumless city." Yet last week the model city was racked with the same virus of ghetto discontent that has plagued scores of other U.S. cities this summer...
...have contributed to the sense of frustration. People who lived in dilapidated housing in the largely Negro Hill and Dixwell areas may simply have grown tired of hearing that their city was doing more than any other to house its poor. To many, the gap between Weaver's dream and everyday reality became intolerable. "We've been telling the Negro that there's a new day," notes Mitchell Sviridoff, who left New Haven's poverty program last year to become head of New York City's Human Resources Administration* "But there...
More in awe than anger, a competitor once declared that Henry John Kaiser was successful because he was ignorant-"he never knew what he couldn't do." Kaiser put it another way: "If I don't dream I'll make it, I won't even get close." Whatever the reason for his success, Henry Kaiser, who died last week at 85 while asleep at his home in Hawaii, put together a remarkable complex of companies that turn out 300 kinds of products in 180 plants in 41 countries and have assets of nearly $3 billion...
...faces, facades and streetscapes that look from Evelyn Hofer's photographs haunt the mind as much as Pritchett's luminous text. So much so that the disputatious Irish may save themselves some anguish by not buying the book-as if, at $15, they would dream of such folly...