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...beginning was 1959, and the word was happening. Drawing on the antics of Dadaism and surrealism, Manhattan Artist Allan Kaprow decided to stage a series of highly unorthodox, one-shot performances for a handful of friends in Greenwich Village. Read the invitation: "Think of a buying spree at Macy's; how to grow geraniums in New York. Do not look for paintings, sculpture, the dance or music...
Standbys & Sewers. The tax-and-spend spree has been touched off by population growth and urbanization (see THE NATION), and the rising demand for services. Of the $75 billion spent in a year by states and localities, about 17% went for roads, 10% for welfare, 41% for schools. One-third of the money came from bond issues and federal grants, the rest from taxes. Of the 47 state legislatures in session last year, 32 approved tax increases...
...felt that it would help his political future if Lockheed won the contract for the C-5A transport; after a visit to the White House, Russell exultantly leaked the news two days before it was supposed to become official. Lockheed's 22,000 Marietta employees celebrated with a spree of buying autos, appliances, houses and summer cottages...
Northeastern's lone goal three minutes into the second period sounded the alarm that woke Harvard from its exam break stupor. The Crimson was down only 40 seconds before Jack Garrity, still riding his goal scoring spree, punched in a rebound off a long shot by defenseman Bob Carr...
...Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed. In Mexico City, for instance, when a Mexican made so bold as to murder a Ranger, the victim's friends went on a shooting spree that in one day deposited 80 corpses on the streets of the conquered capital...