Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motives of a Son of Sam [Aug. 22] may be unfathomable, but the progress from hidden psychopathology to murder has one brilliantly clear turning point-easy access to guns. A free society has to tolerate a lot of misfits, freaks and senseless behavior, but should draw the line at gun freaks. Senseless behavior mixed with senseless gun laws produces senseless killings...
...Haldeman? Nixon says he has no idea-but he does know who did not do it. "I didn't touch the machine," he says. Secretary Rose Mary Woods? Nor she, he says. "She's so smart, she'd a done a ... she'd destroyed a lot more." Nixon also explains why the press kept picking on him. His basic problem, he says, is that "I'm not a lovable...
...simpler and less expensive devices. Like fingers. Michael Mastrangelo finds it easier to make his own tea than program a computer for the task. Says David Korman, who has an IMSAI 8080 in his Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list of instructions. Not long enough. Someone accidentally...
...spirit, Outlaw Blues is like a lot of country music. It is a mock-heroic ballad, loose and unpretentious in form, good-natured, yet somehow not quite so memorable as it might have been...
...debacle in Viet Nam created some different Americans too. A veteran Foreign Service officer recalls that in Saigon discontented "dependent wives" sympathized with the V.C. "They talked about 'our struggle' as if there was some connection between the guerrillas shelling Nhatrang and a lot of old hens in the embassy compound refusing to make peanut-butter sandwiches...