Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egozi, now 38, lives in a $200,000 house fronting on Skylake outside of Miami and often spends weekends with his wife and three children horseback riding around his 25-acre ranch in Fort Lauderdale. He broods about his early days in the U.S., when to be a Cuban "was a very degrading thing," and finds irony in the fact that he is now welcome anywhere. "It doesn't matter what you are if you have money," he says. Egozi should know. He reckons his personal wealth at about...
During the mid-'60s, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district gained dubious fame as a doped version of Fort Lauderdale, complete with acidheads, amphetamine freaks, pot lovers and a sizable sprinkling of good old American paranoids. Until late 1967, some credulous observers believed that American youth, led ever onward by psychedelic visions from the best LSD ever produced, was on the brink of making some sort of cultural breakthrough. In truth, however, the Haight had by that time become a transcendental sewer...
...bell-bottoms and hot pants, in from the fancy apartment complexes surrounding Atlanta. At midnight Friday and Saturday, they don Uncle Sam paper hats passed out by the management to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie. When Lieut. William Calley was released from the Fort Benning stockade, Owner Don Davis dedicated the night's festivities "to Richard Nixon and Rusty Calley." Says Davis: "This is where the Silent Majority can make noise...
...quantitative study which would allow any conclusion as to a cause-and-effect relationship between marijuana use and serious mental problems." Professor Norman Zinberg of Harvard pointed out that the Kolansky-Moore findings could be applied to beer drinkers as well as pot users, and San Francisco Psychiatrist Joel Fort said that the study contained "inaccurate and inflammatory statements" as well as "amateurish social criticism that might have been written by Vice President Agnew's speechwriters...
ROBERT W. FROST Major, U.S.A. Fort Knox...