Word: harley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other tough matches for the Crimson will be Howie Henjyoji against Brown's Steve Gluckman at 123, Ed Franquemont against Robinson Harley at 152, and either Howie Durfee or Phil Emmi against John Alexander...
...longer interested in the American Establishment, "an interlacing of relationships based on primordial status lines," Wolfe is more and more preoccupied with the world of custom cars, surf-boards and Harley 74s, peopled by "drop out forms," who have opted out of the mainstream of American social competition. These forms, rejecting "post-war bureaucracy which has made people interchangeable parts" in the commercial life of the nation, are inherently at odds with the "vertical" social structure they have left behind...
...contemporary scene as any aspect of that Mom's pie America which he dismisses like a crumb from his roll-away sleeve. At other moments, however, they resemble isolated islands of vitality just spoiling for a good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today against yesteryear, WAR. And in any such conflict, who but the Herald Tribune's own T. K. Wolfe Jr., would emerge as the new Ernie Pyle...
...initiation rite, for example, demands that any new member bring a woman or girl (called a "sheep") who is willing to submit to sexual intercourse with each member of the club. But their favorite activity seems to be terrorizing whole towns. Once, roaring along on their "chopped hogs" (customized Harley-Davidson machines), they swept with their girl friends into the town of Porterville (pop. 7,991). With them were members of several other outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Stray Satans. Galloping Gooses, Comancheros and Cavaliers. Reports Lynch...
...most popular model for obvious reasons, such as the ability to say "fill her up" for 30? and cover about 180 miles before fishing for another 30?. Other models range up to 250 cc.-well under the roaring 350-750-cc. behemoths turned out by U.S. Manufacturer Harley-Davidson who, not surprisingly, last month rushed out its own $225 lightweight, made in Italy...