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...look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...
...business and labor leaders, urging them to hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel; 1,800 came for an anti-inflation "briefing" reminiscent of a college pep rally on the eve of the big Thanksgiving football game...
...Music relaxes the boys, especially before game time," Harrison explained. "It makes them loose and seems to pep them up. They like it requested it, and so we're doing it for them. And the spirit on the team has been just fantastic during the last few weeks," he said...
...scene at the Reflecting Pool was something akin to a Be-in on the banks of the Charles save that the preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment started-everyone seemed to be walking around aimlessly looking for someone...
Psychologically more destructive than heroin-and now more available than marijuana-amphetamines are in many ways the most treacherous of all abused drugs. Despite the threat they pose, a recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed that 92% of the speed and pep pills in illicit traffic were manufactured by legitimate U.S. drug firms...