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...Didion's pieces, the players of the late '60s and the '70s come back in their vivid dementia: Hell's Angels, Jim Morrison and the Doors, Huey Newton, Bishop James Pike. Charles Manson peers in at the window. Linda Kasabian, the star prosecution witness against Manson, recruited Didion at one point to go to I. Magnin in Beverly Hills and buy her a dress for court: "Size 9 Petite. Mini but not extremely mini. In velvet if possible." Didion and Roman Polanski turn out to be godparents to the same child...
...YEAR of Intelligence, 1975-when the Church Committee of the Senate and Pike Committee of the House investigated the intelligence services--led to a spate of revelations about the CIA's activities. The agency had conducted drug experiments on innocent individuals, opened mail at home and been involved in nefarious covert operations abroad. It was the climax of the popular distrust for the CIA beginning with the Bay of Pigs. In retrospect the fears leading to the Congressional investigations--Seymour Hersh's allegations in The New York Times--were as exaggerated as some contemporary demands including the total abolition...
...PISTOLS may have been the greatest thing to come down the pike since the survivors of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre took their human pyramid act out on the road. Vibrating with frantic energy, they gave a shock to the world of rock and roll that made such bands as the Talking Heads, the Clash and Elvis Costello and the Attractions possible, and jolted Mick Jagger and his Old Masters into renewal. The Pistols have left rock and roll to the others; Sid Vicious is dead, and Johnny Lydon (nee Rotten), in light of his recent efforts with Public Image...
There were complaints voiced around the pool that the starter consistently did not hold the swimmers long enough in the "take your marks" position. This problem would be particularly detrimental to Cooper, who relies on a strong, high push to initiate his pike-dive start...
...captains Spence Fitzgibbons and Jim Dales and first-year mentor Bob Carr, the linksters will begin the early 25-hour road trip when they catch the Mass Pike around dinner time on Thursday...