Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine who said he had taken LSD "fairly frequently"--talked at length about what made him retreat to drugs. Planes of talk range from functional, housekeeping exchanges through gossip, banter, ideological disputes, to metaphysical discussions, he said, and it is not difficult for two people to fix themselves at the same point on this scale of conversational levels. But there is another dimension to communication, where mutuality is almost impossible to achieve, he said. That is intimacy, an "ultimate intimacy not obtained by shared confessions of guilts, ambitions, Oedipus complexes, or secrets," but by a mental unification analogous to sexual...
...year rap for the kidnaping, which means permanent disbarment. Moreover, if he manages to get his conviction reversed, Pascagoula District Attorney Donald Cumbest fully intends to bring as many other charges against Buckley as he can find. First on the list: an alleged attempt by Buckley to fix the jury that eventually found him guilty. Says the angry Cumbest: "These people have been terrorizing, kidnaping and murdering, and I'm damn sick...
When Edwards heard that Jim Hines, Texas' world record-holding sprinter, still planned to run, he growled: "I hear he wants to play pro football. Some cats in Texas have personally said they'd fix it so he'd be on sticks if he's crazy enough to run in that meet." Hines withdrew, and so did Olympic High Jumper John Thomas, after receiving telephoned threats...
...this you can fix...
...Fix-Up Work. The inflation, however, should diminish somewhat by midyear and the overall increase in the consumer price index, as a result, will be about 3.4%. Steadier prices plus high employment-but with younger unskilled workers a drug on the market-could put the consumer in a spending mood, depending on tax increases. Consumer spending on goods and services will increase during the year, with the greatest increase-7.5% to an average $218 billion-again in the service area. Housing expenditures should reach about $27 billion by the fourth quarter, or roughly the same as last year, but could...