Word: hog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Myth of the Motorcycle Hog" was read with interest at the Naval Safety Center, where romance of the open road is not of the same concern as statistics...
These days, California's black prisoners are rebelling at places like Soledad, a seeming garden spot in the Salinas Valley that looks like a university campus. Soledad's 960 acres throb with activity: tennis, basketball, weight lifting, a dairy, a hog farm. Inmates earn up to $24 a month turning out toilet paper and handsome furniture for the judges and prosecutors who got them the jobs. But for 180 rebels confined in Soledad's "X" and "O" wings, there is no play or work. Because they scorn prison rules, they are locked up tighter than lions...
...pervasive. When Yale students played host to Black Panther supporters last spring, for example, they fed their thousands of visitors not hot dogs and Coke, but a special recipe of oats, dates, sunflower seeds, peanuts, prunes, raisins and cornflakes. Indeed, at Woodstock itself the free kitchens of the Hog Commune ladled out rice, carrots and raisins for all comers...
...admirably by concentrating on Flip. There are no big production numbers, no lines of chorus girls, no star-spangled introductions, just Flip doing comedy sketches and bantering with such guests as Marcel Marceau or Lily Tomlin. While he occasionally joins them in a number, Flip is careful not to hog the camera. He and Henry have also made a point of spacing Flip's pet routines-the sassy Geraldine and the high-gaited gospel preacher-to ensure that they don't wear out their welcome...
...hippie neighborhood as "Freaks v. Pigs," was the idea of Patrolman Jim ("Beer Can") Kilty. Largely because of the cops' good humor, the game was a huge success. The law showed up wearing white T shirts with PIG stenciled on the back and a drawing of a hog on the front. From their pickup truck they pulled a squealing porcine mascot. One of the officers told the kids that the pig had a "long name, but we call him Herman for short." Houston's police chief is named Herman Short, and the patrolman's sly grin...