Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
...alleviating the patient's suffering in its last hours. Observers sometimes found it difficult to follow osteopath David McClelland's complicated juxtaposition of photographs, clever cartoons, nonsense and witty social commentary, all woven into an adventure story. But McClelland's method, which he calls "The Great Goodison Toad Hunt" restored some of The Lampoon's lively humor...
After his graduation from Cambridge with first class honors in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe, in those days an up-and-coming public school. His learning project during the period was gentlemanly idling. With enormous industry and almost no money, he taught himself to hunt, shoot, fish, and handle falcons. He mocked this hunger for accomplishment in a book, written between hunt-club meets, called Burke's Steerage, or the Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away...
Speaking to an audience of over 150 at Hunt Hall, Obinani described a program he has initiated in the Brooklyn ghetto of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The program seeks to allow "local residents to control their own community...
...more than that of Buffalo, Denver, Atlanta or Kansas City. Within its borders are two self-contained industrial cities, Anaheim and Santa Ana, with a combined population of 304,000. The University of California has opened an Orange County campus at Irvine. The Aeronutronic Division of Philco-Ford and Hunt Foods & Industries are located within the county, and North American Rockwell has principal plants there as well...