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...some peanut butter at one of the two convenience stores, mail a postcard at the South of the Border post office. It's dark now, and not many people are left around, so I wander the streets and reflect. Amigoland is absolutely deserted, the Mini-Mex golf course dark as night. So this is America, very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy. A little grease and pavement, but there's the sweet smell of exhaust in the air and fun all around. Sombrero towers; steak rooms; fireworks; mini gold; barrooms; postcards; ice cream; swimming pools. I feel at home here...
...that day in Memphis or Birmingham-is piled on to the city's total (25! 26! 27!) by a press prone to declare and then contribute to "a climate of fear." It may be a kind of retribution that the press now finds itself involved in its own mini-"crime wave"-the faking of stories...
...husband was formally selected by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers as President of the University--whe was not asked about her academic career. Instead, the "women of the press" who had been invited to 33 Elmwood Ave. wanted to know what Sissela Bok thought about the mini-skirt...
Little wonder, then that when a Crimson reporter requested an interview four years later, it took three weeks before she could be persuaded to give in. In the earlier mini-skirt conference the press had also been interested in Mrs. Bok's feelings about house plants and hobbies, and so in 1975 she agreed to meet with a reporter only on the condition that there would be no discussion of "the family" or other personal matters. Questions would be directed to her work, and to make sure nothing slipped out. Deane Lord, director of the Harvard News Office, would...
...much to hope that the invention will offset "the box"-the 20-lb. chromed stereo radio that thickens the air of so many American cities with noise pollution. But the mini-stereo makes possible a silent revolution indoors. Denis Ilkovics, a Belgian tourist, bought one in New York for his 13-year-old daughter. "I hope she'll use it instead of those loudspeakers," he sighed...