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With the end of the war in Viet Nam, Founding Yippie Abbie Hoffman's career as a political activist seemed to be phasing out. But far from living in semiretirement in his Greenwich Village loft, the former defendant in the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial has apparently been developing a sideline. Along with three friends, Abbie, 36, was picked up in a narcotics raid on a midtown Manhattan hotel for allegedly selling three pounds of cocaine to two undercover policemen for $36,000. "They were the most nice people you ever met in your life," said one of the narcs...
Skylab is scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14 atop a giant Saturn 5 booster and sent into a 269-mile-high orbit of the earth. Next day, a smaller Saturn 1-B rocket will loft an Apollo command ship with three astronauts on board into a similar orbital path around the earth. Seven hours later, the astronauts will rendezvous and dock with Skylab. The men will then move into their posh quarters and prepare to remain there for the next 28 days−four days longer than the previous record set in 1971 by the Russians...
Bucky Wunderlick, the all-purpose sensibility of post-'60s exhaustion, is a rock star sick of mainlining on fame. In Don de Lillo's latest novel, he leaves his band and retreats to a dismal converted loft to watch the roaches crawl over the unwashed dishes in the sink...
...reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness to sound and smell, the rock-bottom scrubbiness of Indian life, the raw fragrance of tequila and the vile, fibrous taste of peyote, the dust in the car and the loft of a crow's flight. It is a superbly concrete setting, dense with animistic meaning. This is just as well, in view of the utter weirdness of the events that happen...
...ranch either. She had had a stroke and it confined her to her home. When she was a teenager, Rebekah had hired her to tend the Johnson children while Rebekah taught her elocution students. Mrs. Lewis remembered the time that Lyndon had taken the younger ones up in the loft of the barn and while he was going down a ladder with one of the girls he had fallen. "He held onto the little girl," said Mrs. Lewis. "She wasn't hurt. But Lyndon broke...