Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REMEMBER CAMBODIA? Kent State and Jackson State? May of 1970 when America's college students decided they had had it, and went on strike for an end to the war and domestic in justices? What did you do that spring? Canvass in Charlestown? Skip exams and play tennis? Go home early? I wrote impassioned stories about the Harvard employe strike for The Crimson. In retrospect, it did not matter what we did, individually or collectively. We thought students had attained a position of strength and influence; in another time and place, perhaps that would have been true...
...were dramatic. All the heart attack victims consumed appreciably greater quantities of coffee. The Boston group carefully avoids indicting coffee as a cause of heart attacks. Their findings suggest, however, that people already prone to heart problems would do well, when coffee-break time rolls around, to at least skip a second...
Hypnotist Damon Reinbold raised the bluish ball of glass into the light. "You are drifting down," he intoned. "Farther and farther into a deep, sound and relaxing hypnotic sleep." Lower and lower drooped the heads of the two rock musicians, David Teegarden, 27, and Skip ("Van Winkle") Knape, 28. When their chins touched their chests, Damon, as he is known professionally, nodded to the engineers. The recording session was about to begin...
...recent events at Detroit's Westbound Records were something new. "The mood of music is now flowing through your mind, through your body, through your entire being," boomed Damon, a regular guest on late-night TV talk shows several years back. "When I count to four, Skip will count off the first number." One...two...three...On four, Van Winkle struck a chord on his electric organ, Teegarden spun a roll on his drums, and away they went into Dancing in the Street. Up in the engineer's booth, a spectator, Rock Guitarist Mike Bruce, fell under Damon...
...from downstate Wallace country who serves as legislative leader, Tribbitt wisely responded to his opportunity by saying very little. The fact that Delaware has no commercial TV stations of its own was no handicap for the old-line Democrat. He is, as his son-in-law and campaign manager Skip Webb conceded to reporters, "not too articulate." Tribbitt simply waited patiently for his majority to pile...