Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLD IRON by Robert Stone Pryor. 145 pages. McCall...
...resemblance to this incident and the Jim Morrison and The Doors hassle over a similar scene last year in Miami is probably a good deal more than coincidental. Cold Iron is a cool little novel about the rock scene, one of the few written with an obvious insider's authority...
...Leary is the wild-eyed, stoned-out leader of Cold Iron, a West Coast rock group. Trying to avoid a bust for obscene behavior, O'Leary holes up at the Malibu home of his screenwriter girl friend, Woody Hagen, whose house is kind of an intimate crash pad for the neighborhood freaks. Not a good deal happens after O'Leary's arrival, except that the gang gives a spying nark a tough time and both O'Leary and Woody stand to go to jail for a while. But they figure out a method to coast...
...Your Dog. Focused on science, last week's results proved enlightening if not startling. The scientific facts known to most nine-year-olds, for instance, were limited to simple phenomena. More than four out of five knew that rocks are solid, that iron does not burn by ordinary means and that pines stay green all winter. Abstractions tended to baffle them: only one in four could pick out the definition for "scientific theory" from five choices...
Starting at the Top. In running his company, Ford is all business. His intense sense of responsibility to the family name will not let him be anything else. He started at the top and stayed there, but doing so took an iron spirit. At 27, two years after the death of his father Edsel, he led a family coup that forced his aged grandfather to relinquish leadership of what was a sorely troubled company. Then Ford wrested real control from Director Harry Bennett and his crew of hired thugs in a series of tense confrontations, during which...