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...then set off to gather signatures for an antiwar petition in the New Hampshire countryside. At Princeton, students who had been selling McCarthy buttons two years ago pored over computer analyses of key congressional primaries and elections. The student union at UCLA became a chaos of committees, milling students, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, mimeographed broadsides and memos. Said the University of Southern California's President Norman Topping: "It's extraordinary. The feelings run deeper and cover a larger number of students than anything I've seen in my 18 years of experience here...
...Gambia-a minuscule former British colony with 316,022 people and 340,000 head of cattle-the tourist business represents what may be the country's only chance to diversify its peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
...Bank of America, the largest financial institution in the world, was founded by an Italian-American, A. P. Giannini. The Planter Peanut Company was founded by another Italian-American, Amedeo Obici...
...large group of freaks huddled together for warmth. We joined them. A couple of people in our group returned from a trip to the VW with bread, cheese, and grass. Soon joints and all sorts of food-chicken, mints, cheese, peanut butter-were being passed through the crowd. We sang with Pete Seeger, we jumped for Richie Havens, we laughed at Tim Leary. A fat man frowned and a young girl took pictures while we rolled joints; everybody else smiled. Then they announced Earl Scruggs. We jumped up and began a round
...Apples, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and hot dogs were distributed free, and some students went out to recruit more for this morning's picket line...