Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shit, you know Charlie Cobb, he's a freakoid cracker. Freakoid crackers are individualists to an extreme degree. They smoke, but they know its gotta be kept a secret from the rest of the world. They might have been to Vietnam and started smokin there. But one thing they don't like is freaks. They don't like to be considered freaks. They consider freaks lazy. They might have hair down to their assholes, but they're willing to get out and shovel shit and dig ditches. They don't look down on any chore that needs doin...
...they smoke dope and put stuff into their heads that blasts them wide open every now and then, but they're not hippies yet and they never want to be. None of this love peace beads bullshit. They haven't come to any grand revelation yet. They don't realize that for society to make a jump you've got to have no killing, nobody going without food, no need for robbing people, no mistreatment of any minority including black, no widows left without enough grocery money...
...Southern Co., a holding company of utilities, is trying to extract sulfur not from smoke but from the coal itself. At a pilot plant near Birmingham, Southern dissolves coal with a recoverable chemical solvent. The coal is filtered to remove impurities and then resolidified. The final product is a clean fuel that has virtually no sulfur or ash and a very high heat value. Cost per ton promises to be competitive...
...private lake (stocked, of course with trout and bass), and the property includes a swimming pool and a barbecue pit big enough to broil a hippo. Future owners have access to the 55-horse stable, the 20 miles of bridle paths, trap-and skeet-shooting facilities of Smoke Rise-a private, walled and guarded community for the well-to-do located some 25 miles from Manhattan...
George Foley, president of the Smoke Rise Co., is confident that there are plenty of tycoons around with enough money for his remarkable mansion. "We're not concerned about there being enough affluent potential buyers," he insists. "Our problem is selectivity." At week's end, though, the house that has everything was lacking just one thing to make it a home: a buyer...