Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paved road in Haiti, running north from the Port-au-Prince capital of Cap-Haïtien, is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters that all but disembowel any cars and trucks that travel it. Construction on the $40 million Artibonite Valley irrigation project has stopped, and 30-ft.-high cacti choke the rich sisal fields outside Port-au-Prince. Bankruptcies are rising sharply in the capital, and in the countryside starving peasant mothers beg visitors to buy their babies for two gourdes, or 400 U.S., in hopes that the infants will survive. The country...
Andy, it seemed, was making an underground movie of people seeing an underground movie, letting his camera automatically scan back and forth between the world of coupons and caviar and that of pop and pot. After several paper cups full of champagne and apple cider, the socialites unbuttoned their suit jackets, set their ties at half-mast, and mixed it up with the denizens of the underground on the dance floor. Said one girl in a Pucci gown: "This is a gas! I mean, this is what I call a real party...
...haircuts." On a ferryboat outing to Victoria, B.C., a Negro student watched a number of black-backed gulls mingling overhead with grey and white herring gulls and chuckled: "We're being intellectually stimulated watching the integrated seagulls." Another boy, appalled by a teacher's professed ignorance about "pot" (marijuana), observed: "You'd sure be disadvantaged in my neighborhood." Trying to "Rate." Many teachers find that kind of saucy intelligence more promising than the studied sophistication they often get in their regular classes. "They respond in a rare and open way," says Yale's Morris Kaplan. "They...
...Turkish Riviera has barely been touched by the 20th century. The hotels are few and Spartan, the food is good but unfamiliar, the night life is nil, and travel is tortuous. Overland, the only means of reaching the coast from Istanbul is a two-day trip over winding, pot-holed roads. But none of these problems plague most visitors to the Turkish Riviera-they come by sea. Crowded out of Monte Carlo and tired of touring the Greek islands, members of the international yachting set have begun to drop their anchors and their passengers near Turkey's untrammeled delights...
...integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team to the highest bidder. If the members were affluent and the bidding spirited, the pot sometimes went into five figures-which the "owners" of the winning teams happily pocketed. Then disaster struck. Two con men showed up as guests at a respectable Long Island club, posted grossly exaggerated handicaps, and bought a piece of themselves. They handily won their flight, and walked off with...