Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson pitcher Larry Brown handed in his Gov 10 blue book Wednesday and took the mound against Delaware's tough curveballer Bo Dennis in the tourney opener. Although lacking his usual stellar stuff, the junior hurler held the Blue Hens to one run in six innings, with the help of some fine plays from his supporting cast...
...Jimmy Hoffa deserves better. I took some of the last still photographs of Hoffa at his Michigan home. Some carpenters were building a new porch for him, and one of the men wanted to "go downtown for some stuff." Hoffa whipped out a pencil, grabbed a shingle and began writing down the crew's shopping list, then headed for his car to fill the list himself. "Why are you going?" I asked Jimmy. He winked at me and said, "You know how these union guys are -you send them downtown for nails and they end up having...
...whoa, driver, this bus is loaded with hippies. Wrong. It's packed with them, strange cats in flowers, feathers, frock coats, velvet vests, beads, bangles, headbands, hair out to here, and everybody passing joints. Far out. This thing is a rolling time capsule, Age of Aquarius stuff, very 1960s. So the lady sits down next to this dude in old Army fatigues, and after a few blocks she says to him. "We don't see many hippies around here any more." And he says to her, I swear, "Lady, at these fares. I'm not surprised...
...Puff the Magic Dragon"-could have turned the tide for the moderates. But they would also have exposed the U.S. involvement, so instead it was decided to arm the guerrillas clandestinely. Says Stockwell: "We had tons of weapons shipped in, some of it 'sanitized' stuff [unmarked as to origin], and lots of World War II arms which the agency figured anybody could acquire anywhere in the world." The equipment was flown to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, aboard C-141s belonging to the U.S. Air Force (which billed the CIA for $80,000 for each 25-ton delivery...
...just one measure of inflation that is going to hurt everyone." Esquire magazine had planned to mail circulation promotions to as many as 5 million potential subscribers; now it may solicit fewer. Says Financial Vice President Louis Isidora: "It costs us as much to mail as to print the stuff We have a fixed number of dollars to work with. If postage goes up, something has to go down." Publishers fear that rises in second-class mailing rates will force some magazines to stop printing...