Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted '56 truck: "It's a nice home-and there aren't any cockroaches...
...took the advice of George Shultz, chief of the Office of Management and Budget. Shultz thought that large doses of money from the Federal Reserve, presided over by Nixon's old economic mentor Arthur Burns, would be enough to get things moving. Besides, a tax cut would require a trek up to Capitol Hill, a humiliating concession that all was not well...
...brother Ian, who created James Bond, Peter Fleming produced minor classics. His books Brazilian Adventure (1933) and News from Tartary (1936) are still in print. The first, which spoofed superserious adventure tales, was based on his search for a lost jungle expedition; the second on his 3,500-mile trek from China to Kashmir. A Grenadier Guards colonel during World War II, he was an intelligence operative in Nazi-occupied Greece, then in Asia, where he concocted a mythical set of war plans that misled the Japanese as to the real movements of British forces. Much of his later writing...
Kevin's vulnerability provoked special reactions to his plight. Volunteers from as far away as Philadelphia and East St. Louis came to help in the search; the National Guard was called in to trek through the dense forest at night with infrared spotting devices. The owners of a restaurant on Casper Mountain turned their establishment over to the searchers for use as a headquarters. Residents of the area brought food and coffee to the volunteers, who spent wearying hours in the mountain wilderness...
...Their once and probably future guru is Allen Ginsberg, now 45, and his Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") is still the best of the genre. Ginsberg made the poet into a folk figure again, and it was Ginsberg, too, who led the trek into Indian sutra land. Such preoccupations have taken more of his time lately than his writing, leaving Gregory Corso as his archdisci-ple. At 41, Corso has a tone a trifle less shrill, decorated with more literary allusions, perhaps more varied rhythmically than Ginsberg's. It is still...