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...Kick: scaling the tallest buildings in the Yard. Pot: $30 an ounce, 2 1/2-3 1/2 years or up to $1000 (for a first offense). Liquor: 21, but the campus is wet...Hippie Hangout: the Bick, the Blue Parrot. Law and Order: Councilman Al Vellucci (considered a paper tiger...
...trouble," recalls Mother Smothers. "He used to get Dickie and Sherry, their younger sister, to take picnic baskets to the cemetery and eat off the tombstones." At San Jose State College, they were the rage of the Phi Kappa house, and eventually they graduated to a local college hangout, where they were paid off in peanuts and beer. Their twisted versions of folk classics ("Black is the colour of my love's true hair") neatly spoofed the ethnic folkniks, and within a few years the brothers were smothered with TV offers. On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show...
...already a network headliner at 29-Johnny is the epitome of cool. He is intelligent, laconic, deferential and facile. On occasion, he asks the studio audience to submit questions to him on any subject. Somebody once asked: "Are women permitted in Hurley's bar [the NBC hangout in Rockefeller Center]?" Replied Carson swiftly: "Permitted to do what...
Drop into a Peace Corps hangout in Delhi, or a resthouse in Nigeria, and chances are the conversation will run to gossip about other Volunteers, mingled with the latest half-despairing, half amused stories about the locals. Such talk is the stock-in-trade of the white man in the tropics, and to this extent at least, Peace Corps Volunteers are no different from other expatriates. What does distinguish their talk, however, is the thread of concern for the job that runs through it: there will be insistent questions about so and so's method of teaching irregular verbs...
...yield on first encounter is her telephone number. Explains one Manhattan junior editoress, stressing the fine distinctions: "These are places to meet people, not to take a date." For once she has snared a man, the last place a girl wants to go is back to the old hangout. "I'd be insulted if he even suggested it," says one alumna. And for one very good reason: A return visit would only subject her new catch to certain needless temptations...