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...more memorable stunts, Yippie Abbie Hoffman gleefully showered dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange-pour épater le bourgeois, to freak out the straights. Michael James Brody Jr. can work on a grander scale. He began by passing out $25,000 in tips during his honeymoon in Jamaica. Back in New York by way of a 707 jet chartered for $7,066, Brody announced that he had $25 million to give away to anyone who asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The World Is One Big Put-On | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...usually meets Harvard at least once before the Beanpot, but because of a freak schedule, the two teams have yet to face each other this winter. The Terriers, victims of a 5-3 loss in last year's Beanpot finals, were looking forward to tonight's contest with rare zeal. Last weekend, they could hardly control their enthusiasm...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Icemen Lose At Penn, Face Terriers Tonight | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...both his followers and large groups of right-wing antagonists gathered. Fights broke out between them. As Lambrakis left the hall, he was clubbed on the head by someone on the back of a passing truck, and later died. In the investigation that followed, a scrupulously honest judge (a freak phenomenon in Greece), discovered that city officials had hired Lambrakis' murderer. A whole network of conspiratorial right-wing generals and government officials was rounded up and indicted for murder...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The Moviegoer Z at Exeter St. Theatre indefinitely | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

Whatever the reason, just feed readers those scenario-setting lines like "Saturday, March 4, 1933, was a raw, blustery day in Washington ..." and watch them freak out, history-trippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgic Scramble | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...with loud music and people pouring beer on each other's heads; where your roommate leeringly asks you if you have laid your girlfriend yet... you must have read about it somewhere.) Pookie is slightly neurotic, if one would describe a person with all the symptoms of a speed-freak in those words. Jerry is straightman. He is so deeply affected by contact with the chick that his inch-long hair becomes tousled and he starts wearing a sweater instead of a three-piece suit...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: The Moviegoer The Sterile Cuckoo at the Cheri through December 24 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

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