Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexism is not an expectation that many of us bring to freshman registration. A consciousness of it tends to develop only gradually, checked ironically enough by such things as fear of failure, the love-it-or-leave-it dogma, the feeling that a Radcliffe woman should have the inner stuff to take on every aspect of Harvard...
...Ford auto dealer in Virginia, brought her belongings to the White House and installed her two dozen potted plants in the third-floor solarium. For their dating, "I'm looking for a back stairway for Gardner, so he won't have to go through all that stuff," Susan says. After surveying the mansion, Susan picked a suite on the third floor and asked that it be repainted yellow...
...fallout from the region's interest in space-age technology. The emphasis on rewarding winners with the materiel of the good life-patio furniture, camping equipment and cars, cars, cars -suits the fabled Southern California lifestyle. It would never occur to a Manhattan-based producer that such stuff could be thought of as a necessity, not a nuisance...
Beginning Jan. 1, American goldbugs, who have long been limited to purchasing coins or jewelry, can legally buy the real stuff: gold bars. A bill signed last week by President Ford ends a 40-year ban against private ownership of bullion by U.S. citizens. Administration officials insist that the lifting of the ban will not affect U.S. international monetary policy, since the value of the dollar is no longer closely tied to gold. Because gold pays no interest, it makes investment sense only to people who expect the price to rise sharply or who distrust other standards of value...
...Incredible String Band, the Elvin Bishop Band and the Marshall Tucker Band finish up the weekend at the Cape Sunday night. The string Band is English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...