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...stood about 5' 10", wore sideburns and a moustache. He looked Italian, with big dark brown eyes, and one of his bicuspids was gone so that when he grinned you could see the hole. It was becoming somehow: frank, as if he no more would have gotten a false tooth than lied to you for no good reason. He spoke Massachusetts-city-boy and we liked each other right away. We compared notes on dates and places in the Army; we had overlapped in Vietnam but were never in the same places. He had hated it, he said...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: Volunteers for America | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

...Scientists who fall for the paranormal go through the most devious reasoning," Randi says. "Fortunes are squandered annually in pursuit of mystical forces that are actually the result of clever deceits. The money would be better spent investigating the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. There is more evidence for their reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Squash, I was once told, was developed by long-of-tooth monks who sublimated the vestiges of their earthly desires by slamming a little black ball with a racket against a wall. Now it is played by preppies in white shorts...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

...dozens of flashcards of planes and tanks, and he knows all the numbers and countries they belong to. In a back pocket, he has dozens of coat hangers twisted into spears. In his front pocket, when he is not brandishing it, is a large bunch of squashed tooth brushes, bundled up in hundreds of rubber bands into one big bomb...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...Which is why you've had such a rough time tryin' to find 'em. In this state there are a group of fanatics who believe that dope is evil, and they're fightin tooth and claw to wipe it out. Jesus freaks are nothin compared to narcs, and especially local narcs. They're bible totin statute quotin freaks and in my opinion they are the lowest type of scumbag because they'll get in with you and then betray you. The only character out of the Bible they forget to cite is Judas...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: CANNABIS ROAD: The Freakoid Cracker | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

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