Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newport. The fad seems to have blossomed on the West Coast, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has reached its full glory along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, the Fifth Avenue of the counterculture. There the variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races...
Over the Fourth of July weekend, several hundred street people in Berkeley marched up Telegraph Avenue after a rally, breaking windows, smashing parking meters, looting a jewelry store and nearly overturning a new Buick from a dealer's lot. They were in for a surprise. Only 14 cops showed up to deal with the mob, armed with something new: large-bore guns that fire five wooden plugs from a single cartridge. The plugs spread out and tumble in flight...
...more than the most anonymous of symbols. Through a series of idylls in amusement parks and rock numbers by Crosby, Stills and Nash and Buffy St. Marie, the romance of politics and young love continues on its rocky road. What passes for dealing with issues is a confrontation in Telegraph Tower about the Crew Team, America, and the Movement...
...show ranges from schoolboy sketches to some of his last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph wires, the intricate structure of a dandelion seed ball. In his view, weeds were as precious as flowers, trees had faces, houses eyes, and in their lanky, saggy way cornstalks could almost be seen to dance...
...followed that pattern in London by taking a lease on the Churchill, a luxurious hotel that opened last month. Sheraton is building a 1,200-room luxury hotel in Munich as part of an $865 million expansion program backed by the huge resources of its parent, International Telephone and Telegraph. Sheraton's 1,000-room hotel in Paris' Montparnasse, due to open in 1974, will be France's largest; the company is also erecting hotels in Stockholm and Buenos Aires. Jose Melia, Spain's largest hotel operator, is also building the 1,000-room Melia Castilla...