Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unique qualities is not purchased cheaply. Ellis Murphy, 53, soft-spoken but increasingly bitter, runs one of the biggest welfare departments in the country in Los Angeles County. He has the doubtful guidance of the county welfare regulations, which he dutifully keeps just outside his office. They make a pile exactly 5 ft. 2 in. high. "If something isn't done soon," he says, "the whole idiotic patchwork will fall of its own weight. It's a disaster. At all levels of state and Federal Government, it's disgraceful that we have no master plan to direct this monumental spending...
...Charters assembled the photographs (most of which are from the collection of Allen Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes: the book is published in a limited edition of 2000. (The Harvard Coop Bookstore has a small pile of copies available.) It's divided into three sections; the first focuses on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, and Gregory Corso while they were living in New York just after World...
...earth, just so you can sloppily and wastefully place your wrapped sandwiches and capped cokes in bags. And what do you do with these brand new bags? Do you at least use them for garbage, thus preventing its spread? No. you don't. You just crumple them and pile them onto the already huge heap of garbage we have. Oh. shame shame on you-all. Frequent the Dunster Grill instead. In Dunster, we serve only on special, biodegradable plates...
...relationship between creditor and debtor in the U.S. is generally as polite and stylized as a minuet. Now the minuet has become a danse macabre. Many consumers, trying to husband their dollars in a time of diminishing incomes, rising unemployment and ridiculous prices, are letting their unpaid bills pile up. Businessmen, strapped for cash themselves, are prodding tardy customers faster and harder than ever, while artfully dodging their own debts. Unable to collect their bills, many companies are paring down their operations, and some are simply dropping out of business...
...first political kidnaping of 1971 was pulled off one morning last week with a panache born of practice. As a street vendor in the Old City of Montevideo reached into the pile of lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...