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...announcement in the same Burbank studio where the slapstick Laugh-In show is taped, knew that the understated declaration had startled the world. With four aides, they skipped off in high spirits to Perino's, a fashionable Los Angeles restaurant, where Nixon gleefully shook hands with bystanders on the sidewalk and his party celebrated inside with a $40 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (1961) during dinner. Happy, too, was Kissinger; at the height of a brilliant career, he enjoys a global spotlight and an influence that most professors only read about in their libraries...
...inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...himself. Newspapers refuse to advertise it and most bookstores won't stock it-possibly because storekeepers fear people might take too literally the title of Hoffman's latest opus, Steal This Book. Frustrated at every turn, the Yippie leader last week set up shop on the sidewalk outside one of Manhattan's bookshops and began hawking the book, which offers practical instruction in gypping telephone companies, mixing Molotov cocktails and sowing pot seed. Sure enough, more people stole than bought. After disposing of 50 copies of the $1.95 volume, Hoffman reported his day's gross...
...murder, according to an eyewitness account, occurred on the sidewalk outside Morgan Memorial Store at about 11:35 p.m. when the youth attempted to prevent a young woman from being molested by the assailant, who was described as being black, 6' 1", and about 22 years old. He allegedly carried two 44-calibre pistols and was wearing a brown hat, an army p-jacket, and bell-bottom dungaree pants...
...young people?" If you refuse, he or she will smile and turn away to someone else passing on the street. If you stop, and if you give some change and ask about it, you'll begin to hear about the Process, the Church that these evangelical fundraisers on various sidewalk stations in busy parts of Boston and Cambridge belong to. You'll be offered (for $2.50) one of their glossy, color-covered, large-print paperback books to help you understand more of what the Process is about and you may get an invitation to visit "The Cavern," a coffee-house...