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...environment is seriously threatened by the prodigal garbage of the world's richest economy. In the President's own boyhood town of Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...wonder the young hitched a ride to another America: a sweet-smelling place of laughter and music and bad poetry, where a sugar cube under the tongue could demolish the authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution: A Question Of Authority | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...That's very sweet. Most of my marriage proposals came from five-year-olds. That was some kind of phenomenon. I was a fantasy female for a lot of little boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

What about Hooch's chance of becoming the national drink? "It will be successful," said Igor. "Things are changing, and many young people don't like vodka. They prefer a sweet drink." Whereas in the United States, Hooch responded to objections that the sweet drink would obviously appeal to kids--changing its marketing strategy and no longer referring to its product as a "lemonade"--no such change is taking place here. In fact, Hooch hopes to be as big as the enormous lemon-shaped balloon it gives out as the grand raffle prize at its promotions. Next up for Hooch...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Bottoms Up! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...Sweet Levinsky in the night Sweet Levinsky in the light do you giggle out of spite, or are you laughing in delight Sweet Levinsky, sweet Levinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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