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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toilet was dismantled to prevent me from sucking up any water from the toilet during the hunger strike. These were the same guards who had recently passed out copies of the East paper "Young World" (Junge Welt) which told the story of Angela Davis, American communist, who drank only fruit juice during her hunger strike because prison officials wouldn't give in to her demands. I could see these guys weren't going to be serving me any Minute Maid Orange Juice...

Author: By Lyle Jenkins, | Title: "Please Free Elizabeth" | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

...Apparently the Freudians and the theologians have a talent for speaking about man's dignity and magnificence, which gives them an advantage over B.F. Skinner in capturing popular acceptance. But a tree is best judged by the fruit it bears. The psychoanalysts have had half a century to demonstrate the practical effectiveness of their formulations in solving human problems, and they have been dismal failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1971 | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches for the winter. There is one discomforting difference, however; all three women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Whispered Faith | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

Gregory has been fasting in protest against the Indochina War for 163 days, taking nothing but fruit juice. He has not been running for President, but he has given at least two lectures a day for several months trying to arouse public action against...

Author: By J. RYAN Oconnell, | Title: Dick Gregory Pokes Fun at War; Today Is His 164th Day of Fasting | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

When mass distribution begins late this month, Pan-T-Boots will be available in eight solid colors and three prints (stars, fruit and florals) and will sell for between $22 and $27 a pair. A more formal version, with rhinestonestudded heels, will retail for between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Stretch Pants with a Sole | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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