Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tennis toes" [Aug. 13] are in actuality nothing more than an extremely mild form of what those of us who are mountain hikers know as "downhill toe jam." It is a simple result of the laws of physics. Increasing your body weight by a heavy pack, then compounding the effect of your toes hammering into the front of the shoe by walking downhill, brings on a far more serious malady than mere tennis toes...
...Tokyo is no phantasm. The world's second most populous city is an all too real concentration of 11.5 million jam-packed people. Many of them nonetheless feared last week that Tokyo might soon become a momentary smoke, with millions dead among unparalleled destruction. One reason for their fears was rational enough: all Japan has recently experienced unusual earthquake activity. Tokyo itself has felt 29 minor earthquake jolts this year - two last week. The other reason is superstitious: even the most modernized Japanese retain a sneaking regard for the traditional concept of tembatsu (heavenly punishment), which teaches that good...
...tiny upstate New York town of Watkins Glen last week, the sound of rock music was heard no more. The previous weekend's massive Summer Jam was over, and in its wake were other sounds. The vroom of departing campers, jalopies and motorcycles as the last of 600,000 pop fans set out along roads which for the first time in nearly a week were not clogged with traffic. The crunching of garbage compacters at work on tons of litter from the auto-race-track festival site. The echo of unanimous voices raised at the Schuyler County legislature...
...secret of our success was time," says Finkel. "We began planning six months ahead and devoted our full time to it for two months, trying to cover all the bases." In contrast to the 1969 Woodstock festival, Summer Jam had a whopping stage (100 ft. by 60 ft. by 12 ft.) completed three weeks before the show. The electrical wires were all put underground, the 1,000 portable toilets were in place a week early, and the 100,000 gal. of bottled water arrived days in advance of the crowds. Koplik and Finkel also laid on five helicopters for constant...
...With college students home for the summer, and with Watergate a daily reminder of so much wrong in the older generation, the Summer Jam tapped a widespread desire to return to the uninhibited atmosphere of the campus, to create a vast, congenial party atmosphere with none of the negative overtones of rock's erratic past. Most of the kids just wanted to lie back in the grass, smoke dope, drink wine and be free of worry about being busted-or about being harassed by any adult authority. Then, too, many of them were younger brothers and sisters...