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...long, are made of fiber glass, with clear amber polyurethane wheels, adapted from roller skates, that give the rider more stability and versatility. "Compared with the new skateboards, the old ones were like cars with wooden wheels," says Frank Naswor-thy, 24, a Virginia Polytechnic Institute dropout now on his way to becoming a millionaire (he was the first in the business to put boards on plastic wheels). Sophisticated models cost upwards of $40, v. $5 or so for the skateboards of a decade ago. The new boards, bearing names like Freestyle, Banzai and Road Rider, come in psychedelic colors...
...five national-magazine distributors have boycotted High Times. Publisher-Owner Andrew Kowal, 24, is unperturbed. A Syracuse University dropout, Kowal says the magazine has been successfully marketed through boutiques and head-shops, which are also major advertisers, and through local distributors. Only a small number, 9,000, are mail subscriptions. Kowal predicts a 400,000 press run for the next issue: "We expect circulation to level out at some point," he says slyly, "but we will go as high...
...Hercule Poirot, he deeply believes that "chance has no part in police work"-but his hunches tend to be inspired. These two are supported by a sturdy cast: Fredrik Melander, who has a prodigious memory and spends much of his day in the bathroom; Gunvald Larsson, an impetuous dropout from what he calls "upper-class riffraff;" Einar Rönn, who writes execrable official reports; Per Mänsonn, who is chief in Malmö, where trouble often occurs (and where the Wahlöös lived). Finally, there are the Keystone Klutzes, Kvant and Kristiansson-patrolmen stuck with each...
...They were indeed a somewhat contrasting pair. Gurney, Maine-born, Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that we have to do. I'm glad to have you aboard, and I know you'll do a good...
...someone will jump on you during the night. They never did. But you think about those things. It was a lunatic asylum." The Florida State Hospital was indeed an insane asylum, and Donaldson was committed there by his father as a "paranoid schizophrenic" in 1957. He was a college dropout and a divorced father of three; though he had held regular jobs, he had begun complaining that he was being harassed by unknown people. Since Donaldson was given virtually no psychiatric treatment, he repeatedly sued for his freedom. After his release in 1971, a federal court awarded...