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...there is not enough room for a two-step, let alone spectacular leaps, but the band feels that playing constantly will let a more natural personal style emerge. "We're getting a good feel for the music we like best," Glenn says. "Country rock, like Eagles, Jackson Browne and Gram Parsons have been working out well...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Everyone's Hits...But Their Own | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

High Costs. Most important to the new users is coke's current status as an "in" drug. "It's the height of fashion," says a well-heeled snow freak, "because it shows success." A "spoon" (usually half a gram) of cocaine costs between $25 and $50, and lasts an ordinary user just one evening. Heavy snorters spend several hundred a week. It is considered chic to inhale coke through a tightly rolled $100 bill. Silver straws from Tiffany's, intended for creme de menthe, are also used. Expensive vials and snuffboxes are popular too. Priest, a coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tyrannical King Coke | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...question and answer period Zumwalt strongly supported his innovations in the Navy structure. In a poll given to 11,500 Navy men, the 5000 replies showed an 86 per cent positive response to Zumwalt's "Z-gram" directives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zumwalt Calls for Redefinition Of International Nautical Law | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

Noting that men were more important than hardware, Zumwalt issued a series of broad commands, know to the sailors as "Z-grams." Zumwalt himself called them "people programs," his personal attempt to humanize a service soured by the war in Vietnam. Z-gram number 57 stated that "Mickey Mouse" regulations that are "demeaning and debasing" must go. Another announced a back-room deal Zumwalt made with the Pentagon diverting $40 million from the equipment budget for the construction of homes for servicemen. Zumwalt also ordered that no sailor should ever wait in line more than 15 minutes for anything. Other...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: Blue Navy | 12/7/1972 | See Source »

When I am arranging all that madness that unleashes the spectators' glee. I am not amused by it. I keep the cool, calm pose of the chemist measuring out his medicine. I put into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Not by Bed Alone | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

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