Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VIENTIANE, LAOS (DNSI)-An old Laotian proverb, "when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled," is usually applied to battles between outside powers here. It is equally apt, however, in describing the conflicts among giant American agencies over the use of air power in this tiny nation...
...midst of all this "co-optation," came the onslaught of hard drugs. In the wake of the Government's Operation Intercept, which slowed the flow of marijuana out of Mexico, grass became expensive and hard to get. When rumors linked LSD with chromosomal damage, the counterculture also turned away from that No. 1 mind tripper. In 1969, the culture switched in large numbers to Methedrine or speed, a drug that led many to chaotic, aggressive behavior. Then last year the heroin pushers moved in, and the damage was complete. The drug deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were symbolic...
...praise. "Honor to the synthesis of the scientific and organizational activity of man. Honor to man-king of the earth and now prince of the heavens!" But pity the prince's domain. There was the astronaut with his golf ball, treating the desolate grandeur like country-club grass. Next time the visitors will drive a car. Mundane subjugation would seem complete...
President Richard Nixon has more in common with grass-roots America than many people realize: he has a cousin on welfare. Philip Milhous, 55, whose father was the President's uncle, lost his small chain-saw business in Grass Valley, Calif., after he had a heart attack in 1966. Welfare and Social Security payments were not enough; his wife Anna, 47, has rheumatoid arthritis, and they needed someone to help keep house. The Milhouses turned to the California Rural League Assistance project, recently under attack by Governor Reagan for inadequate service to the poor. Within days of CRLA intervention...
...house, he called the local sheriff's office. Finding 31 partially smoked joints and more marijuana stashed in plastic bags, the police arrested William's father. In Springfield, Mass., last week, Donald Sasen, 10, turned in his baby sitter and three other teen-agers for smoking grass in the house...