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...41st lap of last week's race. Worried about Al, plagued by a broken transmission that forced him to stay in high gear and therefore cost him seconds accelerating away from each pit stop, Bobby nonetheless drove the race of his life. "I was out there to root hog or die," he said afterward. "I took chances I'd never take ordinarily." When the times were announced, Unser had set a new Indy record by averaging 152.8 m.p.h. His $177,523 winner's purse was the biggest in 500 history, and by scoring his fourth straight victory...
CHICAGO: Nothin' from Appalachia Many white poor who have left Appalachia still return to the "hollers" to sample the hospitality of home, chow down on pokeweed salad and hog jowls, pop a squirrel with the old .22-cal. "hog rifle," or just "swang on the front stoop." Others are totally uprooted. In a second-story apartment on Chicago's North Side, an obese Appalachian woman grunted heavily as she heaved herself off the army blanket covering her bed. She flicked off the stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed...
Inflated Appraisals. The original Bellehurst fell victim to sales trouble, financial high jinks and a complex legal battle. Southern California Developer Cliff S. Jones paid $4,530,000 in 1956 for a hog farm on the border of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and laid grand plans for wrapping his 906-acre community around a 27-hole golf course. Los Coyotes Country Club was quickly completed, but a five-month plasterers' strike left Jones with house after unfinished house he could not sell. After the strike was settled, Jones was unable to resume construction. The Federal Home Loan Bank...
...village in Grant Park, where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered: a lie-in at Chicago's O'Hare Field to prevent Democratic delegates from landing or, failing that, a fleet of fake cabs to pick up delegates and dump them off in Wisconsin...
...people who built Avatar from nothing were using one of these legitimate channels of expression which are guaranteed by the bill of rights--the freedom of the press. And then all of a sudden these hippies, these malcontents find that the legitimate channels are clogged with petty political hog wash and pedantic restrictions. If every effort the anti-Establishment makes to express itself through legal channels is thwarted, let's not be surprised next time it resorts to illegality...