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...support of the Shah early on August 19, slipping banknotes under windscreen wipers and giving others to all who would join them. It was a cynical tribute to the CIA's tactics soon all the streets around Parliament Square were squeezed tight with pro-Shah demonstrators. Orators miraculously sprang from the crowd and called for the downfall of Mossadeq. The Shah's portrait was hung on a banner across the railroad station...
Coach Stephanie Walsh was pleased with the effort: "The kids swam really well, and came through at the end. They sprang back from a terrible meet...
...five gold albums, Summer, 29, is the one incontestable star to emerge from the disco demimonde. Love to Love You Baby became a hit in the days when discos were not sprouting on every block, but were stashed in the closet along with the gay subculture from which they sprang...
...than doubled in three years to an unparalleled $33 billion in 1973, and soaring retail food prices combined with OPEC's oil gouging to produce double-digit inflation. In 1976 and 1977, farm prices broke; farm income shriveled to $20.5 billion in 1977, and a noisy American Agriculture Movement sprang up overnight to send farmers rumbling into Washington and state capitals aboard their tractors (some cost $30,000, and a few came with air-conditioned cabs and stereo tape decks...
These tapes have now been released as Skynyrd's First and Last Album. Despite the advertising hype that accompanies the reviewer's copy, the immediate response from anyone who has suffered through any one of the execrable "roots" albums that sprang up in the aftermath of Jimi Hendrix's death runs along these lines: "Here is a half-assed first album being released now to pay the bills for the next few years ...Forget...