Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gent with a recipe for fried chicken. The rest is history: John Y. Brown Jr. built an $830 million empire around Colonel Harland Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken. Having made his fortune, Brown sold out last year to Heublein Inc., a food and liquor distributor, and went into semi-retirement at age 37. But then he met Ollie Gleichenhaus, who runs a seven-stool hamburger joint in Miami Beach. Now Brown is determined to make him the Colonel Sanders of hamburgers...
...welfare organizers. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, wearing a button reading TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE, argued for radical tax reform?a plank the convention rejected. Hour after hour, the session ground on, with the delegates resisting pleas for adjournment. When they were finished, they had adopted a very liberal, semi-populist platform. The order in which the disputes were handled served party unity and party image: Wallace's package was considered first, and the more controversial items such as abortion and gay liberation were taken up well after midnight, when most of the nation slept...
Carrying on a viable relationship under such circumstances involves shifting from one friend's place to another's, in the constant search for a spot to spend the night together in peace and semi-privacy...
...Mass. Avenue across from Lamont, the best flavors seem to be on sabbatical all the time, like your favorite professors. Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet Fudge Brownie, two of the very best, have been gone for what seems like an eternity (actually, since May). Glossy-black, the Mandarin Chocolate tastes of semi-sweet chocolate with a dash of Grand Marnier, the Fudge Brownie is luxurious...
While the Square is no longer unique, it still remains unusual, if only because it orients itself towards a young, semi-intellectual audience. This article is humbly offered as an aid to the physical layout of the area, a recommendation of some places worth going to and things worth seeing, and a warning on which places would be better avoided...