Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Avatar, Boston's iconoclastic underground newsppaer, is back in court. A month ago the eleventh issue of Avatar was declared obscene in Boston Municipal Court. Because Cambridge and Boston newsstands refused to sell Avatar, even before the obscenity decision, Avatar had to sell its twelfth and thirteenth issues--deliberate parodies of "obscenity"--primarily through street vendors. Boston and Cambridge authorities responded to the hippy news-boys with harrassment, arrests and, one day last week, a flying raid on Avatar's Boston office...
Only for Visitors. Lately, the Communists have been turning to brassy, Western-style casinos. Yugoslavia pioneered the big-time play, will soon open its twelfth casino in a Slovenian mountain resort. Designed to shake valuable hard currency from travelers, they were first inspired by Italian tourists. "Italians like girls and gambling," says an executive of Putnik, the state travel agency, "so we gave them nightclubs and casinos." Briefly outraged, Yugoslavia's Communist neighbors soon began setting up their own. Locals are not allowed, but visiting rubes are welcome, even from other Red countries. "Sometimes a Czech visitor walks away...
Baker finished twelfth in the IC4A's in New York last Friday...
...Baker, the spare English captain, rebounded from sub par performances in the Big Three and Heptagonal meets--both won by Harvard--to take a strong twelfth place. Running his best time of the year at Van Cortlandt, Baker still trailed the winner, sophomore Art Dulong of Holy Cross...
Professional Hazards. No one had worked harder or gone farther than Richard Gordon Hatcher himself. Born in a Michigan City waterfront jungle called "The Patch," he was the twelfth of 13 children. His father, a factory worker, was usually laid off half the year. "We had," understates Hatcher, "a very difficult time of it." Instead of surrendering to slum life, Hatcher went to Indiana University by dint of a church stipend, a small track scholarship and his willingness to wait on tables. After earning his bachelor's degree, he went to Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School, where...