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First on any ecology reading list is the Environmental Handbook (95c), a collection of extremely good essays on every conceivable aspect of the crisis. Next, we offer The User's Guide to the Protection of the Environment ($1.25), an encyclopedic investigation of the real consequences of everyday living. It deals comprehensively with brand-name products, nutrition, gardening, soaps, and garbage. Unfortunately it spends only twelve words discussing alternative life-styles as possible solutions to some of our ecological and psychic afflictions. So, important a reference work as it is, no library would be balanced without a Whole Earth Catalog -which...
...turned out, the squadron was high on Kehrli in more ways than one. In Saigon, a military court sentenced the colonel to three years in prison and fined him $15,000 not only for being an enthusiastic user of marijuana but also for passing it around to his men, often at pot parties in his quarters. At the colonel's trial, a young intelligence officer testified that Kehrli had even been a pot proselytizer at Saigon military officers' clubs. "Marijuana is a good thing," Kehrli told the officer during one conversation. "It allows me to understand...
...than comparable existing models. On top of that, IBM filed a lawsuit against Memorex, a large peripheral maker, alleging use of IBM trade secrets. The company also brought out a model of its new System/370 that can be equipped with its own disk drive, making it difficult for a user to add a competitor's gadget. The independents have retaliated with price cuts of their own, and more are expected...
Gorilla pimp. A user of strong-arm tactics to get and keep prostitutes...
Well spoken, unemotional, direct in manner. Conti seemed to be an effective witness for the prosecution. When Calley stared at him, he stared back steadily. When one of the defense attorneys, Richard Kay, shouted at him, trying to establish that Conti had been a heavy user of marijuana while in Viet Nam, he coolly denied it. Conti did admit when pressed that at the time of the My Lai operation he was being treated for a venereal disease...