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With a report on twist fashions at the Peppermint Lounge and another on Small's Paradise in Harlem, the paper launched a series of features on Beautiful People at play. The late Carol Bjorkman, a onetime Saks buyer and jet-setter, began a knowing gossip column called "Carol Says," then moved on to interviews with the likes of Vice President Johnson and a new quarterback named Joe Namath. Reviews, always glib and sometimes perceptive, criticized books, plays, movies, TV shows, restaurants and (lately) Sunday church services. "Eye" and "Eye Too," gossip columns on the snide side, became must reading...
...early 1970 was 49.6% v. 50.1% in 1969. Airline costs of all varieties are climbing at an accelerating pace. TWA's costs for rental and construction of ground facilities have gone up 15% in the past two years. The advent of the jumbo jets has added another twist to the spiral. Landing fees for a 707 jet last year were $330 in Paris and $738 in London; now it costs $808 to bring a 747 down in Paris and $1,675 in London. Pilots who fly 707s for Pan Am-which lost $19.6 million in 1970's first...
...students chant "Action now," decide to strike "for students' rights" and carry signs which read "Legalize marijuana" and "Give 18 year olds the vote." They are merely working out their authority hang-ups against the agists, the squares, the older generation. Students demand more liberal parietals... like young Oliver Twist asking for more food. In Strawberry Statement one of the demands is that the university not expand so that the park (playground) will be preserved "for the kids." Just before the bust the students form concentric circles in the gymnasium and sing "Give Peace A Chance." Such extensions...
Victor Frenkil has always enjoyed doing tricks with money. One of the Baltimore contractor's favorite stunts is to twist a dollar bill into the shape of a politician's last initial and present it to him as a gift. Frenkil's sleight of hand is not confined to parlor tricks. As contractor for the House of Representatives' underground garage, completed in 1967, he has been trying for the past four years to parlay an $11.8 million contract into a $16.8 million windfall. He has managed to enlist the aid of some powerful political assistants...
...They put me into a strait jacket, beat me and choked me." When he went on a hunger strike, the attendants brutally inserted an expander into his mouth. Scribbled Grigorenko, "Force-feeding every day. I resist as much as I can. They beat me and choke me again. They twist my hands, hit my crippled leg." Earlier this month, Vladmir Bukovsky, a writer who spent 21 years in a mental institution, declared that drugs are used to keep patients in line. According to Bukovsky, a Soviet drug called Sulfazin, which induces fever and temperature, is administered as a punishment, while...