Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUBURBIA? The word alone is enough to unleash myths: a place afloat in behind-the-fridge gin, high on pot concealed in oregano jars, giddy with spouse swapping-and bored nonetheless. Perhaps an even greater fiction is that the terrain between city lines and countryside is uniform down to the last resident's outlook and lawn. In planning this week's cover story on the suburbs, TIME'S editors decided to challenge the myths head-on to discover how much diversity there really is among the nation's suburbs and suburbanites...
...Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping her consonants with the back of her tongue, and looping about her housely chores while knocking back the gin and nibbling raw hamburger hidden in a Fanny Farmer box. Vote her the girl you would most like to go on a bender with...
Inspirational Teachings. As Wilson used to relate. "Down went that strange barrier that had always stood between me and the people around me. Here was that missing link." After the 1929 crash, Wilson tried to forget his losses with numbing doses of bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk...
...request that the state officials bluntly refused. Mob-connected men settled down comfortably in the Hughes organization. One of them: John Roselli, who was imprisoned in the '40s for shaking down Hollywood movie producers and later was convicted of conspiring to fleece wealthy card players in rigged gin-rummy games at the Beverly Hills Friars Club. Roselli, who holds a gift-shop lease at Hughes' Frontier Hotel, boasts that he collected a large finder's fee when the Desert Inn was sold to Hughes and recently dealt himself in on the kickbacks paid by entertainers...
...British manufacturer already turns out a hydroponic unit capable of producing 400 tons of cattle food per year in a space the size of a garage; Kaplan claims that a similar device could be adapted to pot cultivation. Bathtub grass, he suggests, is as inevitable as bathtub gin...