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...ever mixed with a San Francisco psychedelic-style concert crowd is likely to forget the experience. Going to see the Boz Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faces in the Crowd | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts have co-authored a bill that would extend U.S. fishing waters from the present twelve miles to 200 miles. But, fearing that foreign nations would reciprocate with 200-mile limits of their own, the State and Defense departments as well as some U.S. tuna fishermen on the West Coast and shrimpers on the Gulf Coast oppose the bill, and so it is not expected to pass. New England fishermen stand a better chance of getting help from the U.N.-sponsored Law of the Sea Conference, which will open June 20 in Caracas. Control of ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Failing Fleets | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...turtles, apparently attracted to the dinghy in hopes of mating with it, added to the larder. They also enabled Lyn, a nurse by profession, to administer turtle-oil enemas to restore bowel movements. Finally, after 37 days at sea, the six castaways were picked up by a passing Japanese tuna boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...verge of selling his durum wheat for $7.20 per bu. (compared with $1.35 last year) who slipped out to the toilet. By the time he returned, the price had jumped 600. In Maine, clam diggers pocketed $18 per bu. for clams that brought $10 per bu. last year. Tuna harpooners sold their catches for 650 per lb., compared with 150 last year. The food producer's gain was, of course, the consumer's bane. In reaction to high food prices, Americans sought ways to stretch their food dollars. As one answer, Southern Californians took out hunting licenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Autumn in the Shade of Watergate | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

After the press conference, the assembled double-knit sports coats and white shoes trooped to the free lunch. Curiously, the Kansas City attempt to claim status as a major league city did not include providing good food. The buffet offering included pressed turkey with bone, tuna fish salad with celery, and Apple...

Author: By Richard Williams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Kansas City, Host of 1973 All Stars, Woos Visitors With Gaudy Extras | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

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