Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Stookey "sings to his plants" on his Maine farm. Peter Yarrow is co-producing a television special about the adventures of Puff the Magic Dragon. Mary Travers spins out solo albums. Ever since they disbanded seven years ago, the folk-singing trio have kept music on their minds, and now comes a coda: a P-P-M reunion. Last week the three announced that they will cut a record and in August they will set out on a monthlong, 17-city tour. "We're living in a different time now, so some of the styles may make some...
When IAFEATURE was launched, Stockwell insists, the civil war was so low-key that two C-47 gunships crammed with Gatling guns-Viet Nam's "Puff the Magic Dragon"-could have turned the tide for the moderates. But they would also have exposed the U.S. involvement, so instead it was decided to arm the guerrillas clandestinely. Says Stockwell: "We had tons of weapons shipped in, some of it 'sanitized' stuff [unmarked as to origin], and lots of World War II arms which the agency figured anybody could acquire anywhere in the world." The equipment was flown...
...liked it just as well if the U.S. had gone all out to win--he thought it was "do-able," just that Kissinger couldn't afford another Vietnam. There's a certain wistfulness in his tone when he writes what he could have done with a "Puff the Magic Dragon" in Angola--"completely broken the MPLA." A "Puff" was a C-47 transport plane...
...view of tumultuous events, of course, cannot constitute "the whole story," especially when the man sits at the troubled center of much of the action and judges himself. Yet that publisher's puff for a book, designated "14374-7 General Nonfiction" in the Grosset & Dunlap catalogue and titled The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, is generally accurate. Richard M. Nixon's personal recollections of his roller-coaster career are a valuable contribution to the history of his times. Only on some highly specific points, including his familiar version of Watergate events, will critics wonder if his book lives...
...modern life and the need for a clearly identifiable villain. In one recent incident at an open-air bus terminal in New York City, a woman asked a pipe smoker to move downwind and seemed annoyed when he readily agreed to move. Then the wind shifted and blew a puff past her nose. "You goddam smokers!" the woman screamed. "I don't know how you do it, but you can even blow smoke against the wind...