Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible aftermath to a bizarre event, NBC television broadcast a tape recording of the Rev. Jim Jones' pleading with his followers to "die in dignity" by sipping a cyanide-laced drink. A few of the cultists protested. Some women screamed. Children cried. Armed guards took up positions around the camp to keep anyone from escaping. Other cultists, assembled around their leader's wicker-chair throne in an open hall, applauded as Jones implored in a high-pitched, agitated voice: "Please, for God's sake, let's get on with...
...call on you to quit exciting your children. Stop this nonsense. Hurry, my children, hurry. Quickly. Quickly. Quickly. No more pain. No more pain. All they do is take a drink to go to sleep. That's what death is, sleep. Have trust. You have to step across. This world was not our home...
...miles of superb public beaches; to cruise the crystalline waters on glass-bottomed boat, catamaran, windjammer or outrigger canoe; to golf, play tennis, deep-sea fish and surfcast; to flight see by helicopter; to beach-walk, backpack, camp, climb, ride horseback, bicycle, nature-walk, birdwatch, whale-gaze, explore, eat, drink, shop and be entertained, all on a 729-sq.-mi. isle about half the size of Long Island, N. Y. Largely pristine and un-Waikikied, it may be the last paradise with panache...
...from Albequerque. That's right--New Mexico. No, she doesn't drink tequilla. Her name's Ellen Hart...
...drink and be merry; in a month you may not be old enough...